"The Raven" is first published, baseball and football induct their first hall of fame classes, the Gulf War fighting takes to the ground, and President George W. Bush coins the phrase "Axis of Evil," all on this day.
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1963: Robert Frost, one of the most popular and critically respected American poets of his generation, dies of complications from prostate surgery at the age of 88 in Boston, Mass. Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry during his life.