The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War, Frederick Douglass escapes slavery, the UN institutes its so-called Bill of Rights for Women, the Paris Global Climate Agreement is ratified, and a reading from Douglass's "My Escape from Slavery."

Theodore Roosevelt first says, "Walk softly, and carry a big stick," the Japanese sign the Instrument of Surrender to end combat in WWII, and the birthday club includes Eugene Field and Billy Preston - with a reading from Roosevelt's essay "Lincoln and Free Speech."

The first woman switchboard operator goes to work and the birthday club includes Johann Pachelbel, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Harriet Shaw Weaver, Liz Carpenter, and Lily Tomlin - with a reading from Elspeth Huxley's "The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood."

Union troops - under Gen. William T. Sherman - attacked the city of Atlanta, Zeppelin got the patent for a "navigable balloon," the U.S. Congress passed its first neutrality act, and the Nazis mounted a false flag attack within Germany to establish a reason to invade Poland. The birthday club includes Roger Dean, Van Morrison, and Itzhak Perlman - with a reading from Willa Cather's "The Song of the Lark."

Explorer Ernest Shackleton rescues every member of his crew on the ship Endurance and the birthday club includes Mary Shelley, Virginia Lee Burton, Kitty Wells, Molly Ivins, and Anna Politkovskaya - with a reading from Shelley's "Frankenstein."

The birthday club includes John Locke, Charlie "Bird" Parker, and Temple Grandin - with a reading from Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

Scientific American magazine prints its first issue, Emmet Till is murdered in Mississippi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his speech now called "I Have a Dream" - which is today's reading.

Canada's "Famous Five" ask a simple question, the Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed, and the birthday club includes Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Cecil Smith, and Alice Coltrane - with a reading of a comic poem by an unknown writer.

The French National Assembly approves the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," the Quebec assembly made French the province's official language, and the birthday club includes Zona Gale, Caroline Pafford Miller, and Ben Bradlee - with a reading from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Enlightened Motherhood."

The Great Moon Hoax begins, the National Park Service is written into existence, and the birthday club includes Walt Kelly and Leonard Bernstein - with a reading from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre."