It is the birthday of U.S. Brigadier General Telford Taylor and it was on this day that the U.S. Congress impeached the President for the first time - including a a reading from Judith Ortiz Cofer's book "The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women."

On is the anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois' birthday, we look back on how his writing and other intellectual work changed perceptions and attitudes in the U.S.

The U.S. Marines erect the flag on Mount Surabachi on Iwo Jima during the Second World War.

And we hear a reading from Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk."

The "Long Telegram" is sent from Russia to the U.S., "Moose Murders" opens - and closes - on Broadway, and it is the birthday of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer - with a reading from his "The World as Will and Representation."

The first editions of "The Communist Manifesto" and "The New Yorker" magazine are published, and the birthday club includes Erma Bombeck and Nina Simone - with a reading from Bombeck's "Family: The Ties that Bind - and Gag"

"The Barber of Seville" and "Swan Lake" premier, Le Figaro publishes the "Futurist Manifesto," the U.S. Congress passes the Blain Act, the Saturday Evening Post magazine publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: "Freedom of Speech," and U.S. movie studios allow the nation's propaganda arm censor their movie scripts. It is the birthday of Ellen Gilchrist and we hear a reading from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the U.S. Army to forcibly relocate Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to internment camps, Betty Friedan publishes "The Feminine Mystique," and it is the birthday of novelist Amy Tan - with a reading from the Munson Report, which found that almost all Japanese Americans were loyal to the United States.

It is the birthday of novelist Toni Morrison and the anniversary of the publishing of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain. This episode includes a reading from Morrison's groundbreaking novel "Song of Solomon."

The birthday club includes activist Huey P. Newton, gender-fluid adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt, and Rabbi Chaim Potok - with a reading from Newton's "Revolutionary Suicide."

The first anti-discrimination law in the U.S. goes into effect - in Alaska. It is the birthday of hitmaker Otis Blackwell. And today's reading is from Elizabeth Peratrovich's argument to pass Alaska's anti-discrimination law.

It is the birthday of women's suffragist Susan B. Anthony and the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' letter revealing how little he knew of the places he saw. Also, a reading from Anthony's "On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform."