The birthday club includes Minna Canth, Philip Roth, and Clara Breed - with a reading from Breed's "Americans with the Wrong Answers."

The New York Conspiracy of 1741 begins and the birthday club includes Wilfred Owen, Fred Shuttlesworth, and John Updike. This episode includes a reading of Owen's poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth."

The birthday club includes Bayard Rusin, Nat King Cole, and Penelope Lively - with a reading from Lively's "Moon Tiger."

The birthday club includes Ethel Anderson, Erik P. Kelly, Henny Youngman, Ursula Goodenough, and Jorge Ramos - with a reading of one of Youngman's longest jokes.

The Ides of March, indulgences for non-Anglican Christians in England, US President Lyndon B. Johnson says "We Shall Overcome," and the birthday club includes "Lightnin'" Hopkins and Kate Bornstein - with a reading from Alexandre Duma's "The Man in the Iron Mask."

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is created and the birthday club includes Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Albert Einstein, Billy Crystal, and Ben Cohen - with a reading from O'Shaughnessy's "Ode."

The U.S. Congress agrees to protect the freedom of slaves who make it to Union territory, and the birthday club includes Janet Flanner, Edward O'Hare, and Al Jaffee. This episode includes a reading from the environmental scientist Donella Meadows' book, "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update."

The birthday club includes Jack Kerouac, Harry Harrison, Virginia Hamilton, James Taylor, and Dave Eggers - with a reading from Kerouac's "On the Road."

Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premiers and the birthday club includes Wanda Gag, Ralph Abernathy, Shelley Zegart, and Douglas Adams - with a reading from Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Events on this day led the French writer Voltaire to write "Treatise on Tolerance," the U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the birthday club includes activists Halley Quinn Brown and Lilian Wald - with a reading from Voltaire's "Treatise on Tolerance."