It's National Poetry Month in the USA and Canada!
	A libel trial instigated by Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray) began on this day in 1895. It would eventually lead to a criminal trial against Wilde which resulted in his imprisonment for homosexuality.
	Henry R. Luce, the magazine publisher who created Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and Fortune, was born on this day in 1898
	Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision was published on this day in 1950. Although an instant bestseller, it was so soundly rejected by the scientific community that the embarrassed publisher, Macmillan, transferred it to Doubleday within two months.
	The American Civil Liberties Union announced on this day in 1955 that it would defend Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl against charges of obscenity
	Graham Greene (The Quiet American) died on this day in 1991
	Terence McKenna (Food of the Gods) died on this day in 2000