A Day Like This Poem by Roger Gerald Hicks

Like any other day,
something is lovely
and something is ugly.

On a day like this,100,000 buffalos wintered in Florida
On a day like this, Krakatoa disappeared
On a day like this, Einstein was born

On a day like this, Lincoln was assassinated

On a day like this, Pearl Harbor was bombed
On a day like this, the first heart transplant was made
On a day like this, Enola Gay was high over Japan

On a day like this, the last wooly mammoth froze to death

On a day like this, the Constitution was signed
On a day like this the first telephone call was made
One a day like this Tiger hit his first golf ball

On a day like this, the first germs were observed

On a day like this, Lee Harvey Oswald loaded his rifle
On a day like this, witches were burned in Salem
On a day like this the character 7 was first written

On a day like this, the first killer bee was hatched

On a day like this, it rained acid
On a day like this, Christ was born
On a day like this, you first tasted your mother's milk

This is a day like any other
Something ugly will happen
Something glorious will happen
and to two different witnesses
they may be the same event.