The Gurindji get some of their land back, and the birthday club includes T. E. Lawrence, Georgette Heyer, Wallace Thurman, William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., Charles Bukowski, and Diana Wynne Jones - with a reading from Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph."

The movie "The Wizard of Oz" hits the silver screen, and the birthday club includes Walter Scott, Oscar Peterson, Stanley Milgram, and Stieg Larsson - with a reading from "Mrs. Dalloway," by Virginia Woolf.

U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, and the birthday club includes Ernest Thompson Seton, Ernest Thayer, David Crosby, Steve Martin, and Danielle Steele - with a reading from Steele's work.

King Louis XVI is arrested, "barbed-wire Sunday," and happy birthday to Lucy Stone - with a reading of Stone's position on speaking out against slavery.

Isaac Singer patents his sewing machine, Sue Hendrickson discovers the biggest and best skeleton of a T-Rex, and NAFTA happens. Happy birthdays to Radclyffe Hall, Erwin Schrodinger, and William Goldman - with a reading from "Writing is Work," by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Hedy Lamarr gets a patent and the birthday club includes Angus Wilson and Alex Haley - with a reading from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."

Quite the birthday club: Era Bell Thompson, Leo Fender, Dolores Alexander, Suzanne Collins, and Rachel Simmons - with a reading from Willa Cather's "The Song of the Lark."

Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden," Smokey the Bear appears for the first time, and the U.S. drops its second atomic bomb on Japan. Today's reading is from "Red Badge of Courage," by Stephen Crane.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee tries to resign his command after losing nearly 30,000 soldiers in the battle of Gettysburg. The Allies sign the London Charter, which established the Nuremberg Trials. And happy birthday to Sara Teasdale - with a reading of her poem "Buried Love."

U.S. President George Washington crushes the Whiskey Rebellion, Thor Heyerdahl's ship, the "Kon Tiki," reaches the Tuamotu Islands in the South Pacific, and Frances Kelsey is recognized for refusing to allow use of thalidomide in the U.S. Happy birthdays to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Ralph Bunche - with a reading from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein."