Walt Disney releases "Fantasia," the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Alabama's racist segregation of buses violated the Constitution, and Seymour Hersh publishes the story of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. Happy birthday to Robert Louis Stevenson - with a reading from his book "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."

The World Wide Web is proposed and the birthday club includes John McGahern, Sarah Harmer, and Richelle Mead - with a reading from McGahern's "The Dark."

The Mayflower Compact is signed, the Armistice ending World War I is signed, and in the U.S. the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is consecrated. The birthday club includes Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kurt Vonnegut, and Mary Gaitskill - with a reading from Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American."

The Cult of Reason, Canada and the U.S. receive the top-secret message that at the 11th hour of the next day, WWI would end, direct dialing starts, "Sesame Street" airs its first episode, and happy birthday to Neil Gaiman - with a reading from L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz."

Kristallnacht, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the birthday club includes Maud Howe Elliott, Mary Travers, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and Allison Wolfe - with a reading from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein."

Mary Lyon establishes Mount Holyoke, Black and White workers go on strike together for the first time in the U.S., and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the Civil Works Administration. The birthday club includes Sarah Fielding, Bram Stoker, Margaret Mitchell, Martha Gellhorn, and Kazuo Ishiguro - with a reading from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The first issue of the London Gazette is published, Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation is extended to slaves in the American colonies, abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is shot and killed, women are granted suffrage in Colorado, and Montana elects Jeanette Rankin as the first woman in the U.S. Congress. Happy birthday to Albert Camus and Joni Mitchell - with a reading from "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Charter of the Forest is sealed in London, and the birthday club includes Derrick Bell, Michael Cunningham, and Colson Whitehead - with a reading from L. M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables."

The Gunpowder Treason is stopped in London, Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for voting, and the U.S. issues its first patent for an automobile. England and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire and happy birthday to Art Garfunkel - with a reading from Susan B. Anthony's address to the Union League Club.

Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams," and happy birthdays to Will Rogers and Charles Frazer - with a reading from Rogers' newspaper column.