Willie Gillis makes his first appearance on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post and the birthday club includes Edward Stratemeyer, Donald Sobol, Jackie Collins, and Anne Rice - with a reading from Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations."

Proclamations of Thanksgiving keep happening on this day and happy birthdays to Thomas Wolfe and Gore Vidal - with a reading from Wolfe's "You Can’t Go Home Again."

Thurgood Marshall becomes the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the birthday club includes Graham Greene, Don Mclean, Sting, and Melissa Harris-Perry - with a reading from "A Voice from the South," by Anna Julia Cooper.

"Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management" is published, Yosemite Park is established, and "In God We Trust" first appears on U.S. paper money. Happy birthday to Tim O'Brien - with a reading from John Muir's "The Yosemite."

The signing of the Munich Agreement and Babi Yar. The birthday club includes, Rumi, Truman Capote, Elie Wiesel, Laura Esquivel, and Ta-Nehisi Coates - with a reading from Wiesel's "Night."

League of Nations mandates go into effect in the Mid-East - more than 100 years later, we still feel the impacts. The birthday club includes Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth Gaskell, Olive Dehn, and Barbara Mertz - with a reading from Cervantes' "Don Quixote."

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin and happy birthdays to Ben E. King, and George W. S. Trow - with a reading from Trow's "Within the Context of No Context."

Rachel Carson publishes her landmark book "Silent Spring" - with a reading from three of her writings.

Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity, a Nazi official publishes his valuations of everything left behind by Jewish people who were sent to death camps, and the first televised Presidential debate was broadcast. Happy birthday to Jane Smiley - with a reading of her love for bookstores.

The U.S. Bill of Rights is passed, the Columbia School of Journalism is founded, and the Little Rock Nine integrate a school in Arkansas. Happy birthdays to William Faulkner and Shel Silverstein - with a reading from Faulkners "The Sound and the Fury."