Patrick Henry gives his speech "Give me liberty or give me death!" Bishop Oscar Romero asks for peace in El Salvador and the birthday club includes Akira Kurosawa and Subhadra Joshi - with a reading from Henry's speech.

The first treaty is signed between Indigenous people and European-Americans, SCOTUS rules that single people can have contraceptives, and the birthday club includes Louis L'Amour, Stephen Sondheim, George Benson, and Andrew Lloyd Webber - with a reading from George Eliot's masterwork "Middlemarch."

Tennessee passes a law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in schools, the first Comic Con, and the birthday club includes Dorothea Beale, Son House, and Forrest Mars, Senior, and Solomon Burke - with a reading from Beale's "Work and Play in Girls' Schools."

Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her landmark novel (in two volumes) and it is Henrik Ibsen's birthday - with a reading from his well-known play "A Doll's House."

The birthday club includes Minna Canth, Philip Roth, and Clara Breed - with a reading from Breed's "Americans with the Wrong Ancestors."

The New York Conspiracy of 1741 begins and the birthday club includes Wilfred Owen, Fred Shuttlesworth, and John Updike. This episode includes a reading of Owen's poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth."

The birthday club includes Bayard Rusin, Nat King Cole, and Penelope Lively - with a reading from Lively's "Moon Tiger."

The birthday club includes Ethel Anderson, Erik P. Kelly, Henny Youngman, Ursula Goodenough, and Jorge Ramos - with a reading of one of Youngman's longest jokes.

The Ides of March, indulgences for non-Anglican Christians in England, US President Lyndon B. Johnson says "We Shall Overcome," and the birthday club includes "Lightnin'" Hopkins and Kate Bornstein - with a reading from Alexandre Duma's "The Man in the Iron Mask."

Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is created and the birthday club includes Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Albert Einstein, Billy Crystal, and Ben Cohen - with a reading from O'Shaughnessy's "Ode."