The UCMJ, Walt Whitman, Fred Allen, Al Young, Svetlana Alexievich and a reading from Whitman's A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown.

Joan of Arc, the Man of a Thousand Voices: Mel Blanc, James Chaney, Idina Menzel, and a reading from Willa Cather's "My Antonia."

Memorial Day in the U.S. and Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman?" Igor Stravinsky, Everest, Patrick Henry, and Bob Hope. Today's reading is from Harriet Tubman's autobiography.

The Indian Removal Act, the Sierra Club, "The Forgotten Prisoners," Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, "T-Bone" Walker, and Maeve Binchy - also a reading from "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.

Julia Ward Howe, Dashiell Hammett, Rachel Carson, Herman Wouk, and the Chekhov of the Suburbs. The Golden Gate Bridge opens and a reading from Silent Spring.

President Andrew Johnson acquitted - barely, the last Czar of Russia is crowned, un-American Activities, and you could call it the birth of the cool, and so much more, including a reading from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself."

The U.S. Constitutional Convention, John Scopes indicted, JFK wants a man on the moon, Star Wars opens, and it's the birthday of the Sage of Concord.