Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Guthrie's musical legacy is sizable and includes hundreds of songs, ballads and improvised works covering topics from political themes to traditional songs to children's songs. Guthrie performed continually throughout his life with his guitar frequently displaying the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists." Guthrie is perhaps best known for his song "This Land Is Your Land", which is regularly sung in American schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs. His songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression and he is known as the "Dust Bowl Troubadour." Guthrie was associated with, but never a member of, Communist groups in the United States throughout his life. Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children, including American folk musician Arlo Guthrie. He is the grandfather of musician Sarah Lee Guthrie. Guthrie died from complications of the genetic neurologic disorder known as Huntington's disease.

Moldavian-Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great and his Moldavian forces successfully repelled an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia, near Vaslui in present-day Romania.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vaslui)

Common Sense by English revolutionary Thomas Paine, a document denouncing British rule which contributed to stimulating the American Revolution among the populace of the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet))

Napoleon, childless after 14 years of marriage, divorced his first wife Joséphine.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phine_de_Beauharnais)

Service began on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_and_Metropolitan_District_Railways)

The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Westminster Central Hall in London with representatives from fifty-one member states.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly)

sibilant (adj) Characterized by a hissing sound such as the "s" or "sh" in sash or surge.
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sibilant)

I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. --Robinson Jeffers