Sojourner Truth gives her extemporaneous speech "Ain't I A Woman?" Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" premieres, and Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay reach the peak of Mt. Everest. The birthday club includes Bob Hope and T. H. White - with a reading from White's "The Sword in the Stone."

How the Sierra Club and Amnesty International were written into existence on the same day, though nearly 70 years apart - with a reading from John Muir's "My First Summer in the Sierra."

The Sierra Club and Amnesty International were written into existence. The birthday club includes Ian Fleming and Maeve Binchy - with a reading from one of John Muir's journal entries.

Extolling the writing - and wrath - of Julia Ward Howe - with a reading from her "Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World."

Julia Ward Howe, her writing, and her call for equality and peace - with a reading from her "Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World."

The House Committee on Un-American Activities holds its first session and the birthday club includes Miles Davis, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, and Raina Telgemeier - with a reading from Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty."

Why did the Universalist Church consider Ralph Waldo Emerson a heretic? Maybe we should be glad it did...

The Constitutional Congress begins in Philadelphia, "Star Wars" hits movie screens, and the birthday club includes Ralph Waldo Emerson and Rosario Castellanos - with a reading from Emerson's "Self Reliance."

The birthday club includes Bob Dylan and Michael Chabon - with a reading from Lorella Cidroni's "Italian Critics of Capitalism."

The birthday club includes Margaret Fuller, Isabella Ford, Scott O'Dell, Margaret Wise Brown, and Mitch Albom - with a reading from Fuller's "Woman in the Nineteenth Century."