The birthday club includes Albert Murray, Burt Bacharach, and George Carlin - with a reading from "Never Cry Wolf," by Farley Mowat.

The first book is published and the birthday club includes Harriet Quimby and Irving Berlin - with a reading of "Love 6" by Rose Auslander.

Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman to be nominated to be U.S. President, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the UK, and the very first issue of Marvel Comics' "The Hulk" was published. The birthday club includes Max Steiner, Ariel Durant, and Bel Kaufman - with a reading from Kaufman's semi-autobiographical novel "Up the Down Staircase."

The birthday club includes J. M. Barrie, Richard Adams, and Alan Bennett - with a reading from Bennett's "The History Boys."

It is Victory in Europe Day, the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, and the birthday club includes Gary Snyder and Naomi Klein - with a reading from Klein's book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate."

Beethoven premiers his 9th Symphony, Geoffrey Dummer publishes his idea of an integrated circuit, and the birthday club includes David Hume, Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala, and Angela Carter - with a reading from Hume's “Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences.”

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Works Progress Administration and the birthday club includes Orson Welles, Bob Seger, and Martha Nussbaum - with a reading from Nussbaum's "Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities."

The birthday club includes Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Tammy Wynette, and Michael Palin - with a reading from Kierkegaard's book "Either/Or."

The May 4th Movement in China and the Kent State shootings in Ohio - with a reading from Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea."

SCOTUS rules against race-based real-estate agreements and the birthday club includes Septima Poinsette Clark and Pete Seeger - with a reading from Clark's "Purpose of Citizenship Schools."