The ACLU is formed and the birthday club includes Edgar Allan Poe and Patricia Highsmith - with a reading from Poe's classic "The Cask of Amontillado."

It is the birthday of A. A. Milne - with a reading from one of his best known works, "The House at Pooh Corner."

On Anne Bronte's birthday, a look at her writing and the tension it caused her sister Charlotte - with a reading from Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."

Miguel Cervantes' "Don Quixote" is published, Thomas Jefferson's "Statute for Religious Freedom" is adopted, the Chapultepec Peace Accords are signed - ending the civil war in El Salvador, and it is the birthday of Susan Sontag - with a reading from Cervantes' "Don Quixote."

The King of France commissions the founding of New France - now Canada and the birthday club includes Moliere, Richard Martin, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - with two readings from King's writing.

The U.S. and UK sign the Treaty of Paris - ending the Revolutionary War and it is the birthday of Emily Hahn and Maureen Dowd - with a reading from Hahn's "Seductio ad Absurdum: The Principles and Practices of Seduction."

Emile Zola publishes "J'Accuse!" amid the Dreyfus Affair and it is the birthday of Shonda Rimes - with a reading from Zola's "J'Accuse!"

The birthday club includes Laura Adams Armer, Jack London, Haruki Murakami, and Issa Rae - with a reading from London's "Call of the Wild."

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is created and the U.S. Surgeon General proclaims smoking tobacco was a public health risk. It is the birthday of Aldo Leopold and this episode includes a reading from his landmark work "A Sand County Almanac."

Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense," the paper that drove opioid prescription, over-use, and overdoses is published, and it is the birthday of Stephen Ambrose, Jim Croce, Donald Fagen, Pat Benatar, and Shawn Colvin - with a reading from Voltaire's "Candide."