Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke, Black and White workers go on strike together for the first time in the U.S., and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the Civil Works Administration. The birthday club includes Sarah Fielding, Bram Stoker, Margaret Mitchell, Martha Gellhorn, and Kazuo Ishiguro - with a reading from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Harriet Beecher Stowe.