I probably won't update until later today. So, a little trivia question: What happened this day in history? (No cheating with google)

I'll give you a clue:

Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day and year...

A cry of defiance and not of fear,

A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,

And a word that shall echo forevermore!

For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,

Through all our history, to the last,

In the hour of darkness and peril and need,

The people will waken and listen to hear...