On this date in history: In 1888, the comic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Examiner. In 1937, the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, married divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson of Baltimore after abdicating the British throne. In 1940, waves of German bombers bombed Paris for the first time during World War II, killing hundreds of mostly civilians, damaging buildings and narrowly missing U.S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt. In 1965,