The World War II Battles of Midway and D-Day are both tied to this day and the birthday club includes Alexander Pushkin, Angelo Moriondo, and Thomas Mann - with a reading from Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin."

Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated, "Tank Man" becomes a symbol for democracy by stopping a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square, and it is Federico Garcia Lorca's birthday, with a reading of his poem "Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint."

Winston Churchill addresses the House of Commons after the evacuation of Dunkirk, and June 4th in 1989 saw big changes in Beijing, Tehran, and throughout Poland and what was then called the "Eastern Bloc" - with a reading from Churchill's speech "We Shall Fight On the Beaches."

Peter Abelard becomes one of the first to use logic in order to understand faith. He was then tried and convicted of heresy.

This episode includes a reading from Abelard's book, "The Story of My Misfortunes."

England's lawmakers enflame American passions for revolution by expanding the Quartering Act and the birthday club includes Thomas Hardy, Dorothy West, and Norton Juster - with a reading from West's column in the Vineyard Gazette.

French poet Charles Baudelaire publishes his landmark book "Flowers of Evil," Senator Margaret Charles Smith gives her speech the "Declaration of Conscience," and the birthday club includes Charles Kay Ogden, Colleen McCullough - with a reading from Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil."

The birthday club includes Walt Whitman, Fred Allen, Al Young, and Svetlana Alexievich - with a reading from Whitman's "Song of the Banner at Daybreak."

On his birthday, remembering the writer Countee Cullen, a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. This episode includes a reading of Cullen's poem "Saturday's Child."

The birthday club includes Countee Cullen, James Chaney, and Idina Menzel - with a reading of Cullen's poem "Saturday's Child."

T. H. White, the storyteller who struggled - with a reading from his best-known work, "The Sword in the Stone."