 Kennedy matriarch Rose Kennedy was born on this day, and in 1976, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci became the first Olympic athlete to score a perfect 10. Our almanac calendar indicates that Black-Eyed Susan is in bloom now. That is our cue to revisit the legend of Susan and her betrothed, Sweet William, and how the story is played out in summer fields and meadows. Black-Eyed Susan is an old English poem about a girl in search of her true love who is about to set sail on a long ocean voyage.