The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. demonstrates with striking workers in Memphis, TN. The Panama Papers are published and the birthday club includes Washington Irving and Jane Goodall - with a reading from Goodall's "Reason for Hope."

The birthday club includes Giacomo Casanova, Hans Christian Andersen, Emile Zola, and Camille Paglia - with a reading from Casanova's "The Story of My Life."

It is what T. S. Eliot called "the cruelest month," and April Fool's Day, so we look at the Day's possible origins. Sergei Rachmaninoff and Milan Kundera were born on this day - and a reading from Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage."

The Motion Picture Production Code goes into effect in the US, the Civilian Conservation Corps is established, and the birthday club includes Johann Sebastian Bach, John Fowles, Judith Rossner, and Marge Piercy - with a reading from Fowles' "The Magus."

The US buys Alaska from Russia and the birthday club includes Anna Sewell, Carl Lutz, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Shahla Sherkat, Marie-Christine Koundja, and Tobias Hill - with a reading from Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism."

Queen Victoria establishes the nation of Canada and Queen Elizabeth II ends the British Parliament's ability to make or amend laws in Canada. The birthday club includes Sheila Kitzinger, Eric Idle, Alec Wilkinson, Jo Ann Mapson, and Evelyn C. White - with a reading from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."

The birthday club includes Maxim Gorky, Nelson Algren, Iris Chang, and Jennifer Weiner - with a reading from Algren's "Chicago: City on the Make."

Congress overrides a veto of civil rights legislation and the birthday club includes Jane Colden, Charles Mackay, and Jelena Dimitrijević - with a reading of Mackay's "No Enemies."

The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty is signed and the birthday club includes Julie-Victoire Daubie, Robert Frost, Joseph Campbell, Viktor Frankl, and Tennessee Williams - with a reading from Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning."

Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr speaks of the death of segregation, and the birthday club includes Flannery O'Connor and Gloria Steinem - with a reading from O'Connor's "Wise Blood."