Tiffany and Young opens its doors and the New-York Daily Times publishes its first edition - both became NYC landmarks, now known as Tiffany & Co. and the New York Times. Booker T. Washington gives his Atlanta Exposition Speech and CBS starts broadcasting. Today's reading is from L. M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables."

The U.S. Constitution is approved and the Union and Confederate Armies fought the terrible battle of Antietam. The birthday club includes William Carlos Williams, John Creasey, Elizabeth Enright, Mary Stewart, and Hank Williams - with a reading from Enright's "Thimble Summer."

Signing of the Montreal Protocol and the birthday club includes Francis Parkman, Miriam Benjamin, and H. A. Rey - with a reading from Parkman's "The Oregon Trail."

The HMS Beagle - with Charles Darwin aboard - lands on the Galápagos Islands and the 16th St. Church is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. Happy birthday to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - with a reading from her "We Should All Be Feminists."

Handel's Messiah is performed for the first time, the birthday club includes William H. Armstrong, Kate Millett, Bernard MacLaverty, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, and a reading from Millett's "The Loony Bin Trip."

Henry Hudson explores the river named after him in what is now New York, the battle of Quebec ends after three months of siege and 45 minutes of battle, Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry and the city of Baltimore, and it is the birthday of Mildred D. Taylor - with a reading from Key's "Defence of Fort M'Henry."

Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning, JFK delivers his speech, "We Choose to Go to the Moon," and the birthday club includes H. L. Mencken, Nellie Wong, and Michael Ondaatje - with a reading from Mencken's diary.

Some of the best writing on the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The Washington Post piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/sept-11-novels/2021/09/05/c6b3e5ba-0ce5-11ec-a6dd-296ba7fb2dce_story.html

Ron Charles' website:

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John Smith is named council president of Jamestown colony, Elias Howe is granted a patent for his sewing machine, and the birthday club includes Hanna Webster Foster, Mary Oliver, and Stephen Jay Gould - with a reading from "Southern Horrors," by Ida B. Wells.

The U.S. Congress agrees to the compromise of 1850 and it is the birthday of Leo Tolstoy - with a reading from his landmark work "War and Peace."