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."

The birthday club includes the Apple iPhone, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Krantz, and Joan Baez - with a reading from Beauvoir's "The Second Sex."

The first U.S. State of the Union and the birthday club includes Gypsy Rose Lee and Graham Chapman - with a reading from Willa Cather's "O Pioneers."

Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the birthday club includes Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and Zora Neale Hurston - with a reading from Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

The birthday club includes Charles Sumner, Alan Watts, E. L. Doctorow, and Elizabeth Strout - with a reading from Watts on writing.

Ford switches to an 8-hour workday, Samuel Becket's "Waiting for Godot" premiers, and the birthday club includes Stella Gibbons, Umberto Eco, and Hayao Miyazaki - with a reading from Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm."

Solomon Northup regains his freedom and it is the birthday of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin - with a reading from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities."

The birthday club includes J. R. R. Tolkien, Anne Stevenson, and Stephen Stills - with a reading from Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."