The US Post Office is established, the first Esperanto book is published, and the world's major powers draft the Potsdam Declaration to end WWII. The birthday club includes George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, and Gracie Allen - with a reading from Shaw's "Man and Superman."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes his masterpiece 40th Symphony: the Great G-Minor, Jack London sails from San Francisco for gold in the Yukon, and US Pres. John F. Kennedy says any attack on West Berlin by the Russians would be treated as an attack on US soil. It is the birthday of political analyst and writer Anne Applebaum - with a reading from her book "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism."

O. Henry is released from prison, the world's major powers sign a pact to not use war to settle disputes (almost 10 years before the start of WWII), and the US Supreme Court orders Pres. Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate Tapes. The birthday club includes Alexandre Dumas and Zelda Fitzgerald - with a reading from a letter Zelda sent to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Ford Motor Company sells its first car, the Chinese Communist Party is founded, and Philippe Petain is put on trial for being a Nazi puppet and turning France into a fascist state. On the birthday of Raymond Chandler, we look at his work - with a reading from "Red Winds: A Collection of Short Stories."

Katherine Lee Bates starts writing "America the Beautiful" and it is the birthday of Emma Lazarus - with a reading of her poem "The New Colossus."

The first showdown in America's "Wild West," the dramatic conclusion of the Scopes Monkey Trial, and recording Earth's coldest temperature - with a reading from Willa Cather's "My Mortal Enemy."

Apollo 11 lands and humans walk on the moon for the first time and the birthday club includes Gregor Mendel, Tom Crean, and Edmund Hillary - with a reading from Kimberle Crenshaw's "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex."

The first women’s rights convention in the U.S. begins in Seneca Falls, New York and it is the birthday of Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - with a reading of her poem, "If I had Known."

The Hough Riots convulse Cleveland and the birthday club includes William Makepeace Thackary, Nelson Mandela, and Hunter S. Thompson - with a reading from Thompson's obituary of former Pres. Richard M. Nixon, titled "He Was a Crook."

Spain sells Florida to the US, Willis Carrier designs the air conditioner, the International Criminal Court is established in The Hague, and it is the birthday of Phyllis Diller - with a reading of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem "Solitude."