The "Long Telegram" is sent from Moscow to Washington, "Moose Murders" opens - and closes - on Broadway, and (instead of "happy") an epistemological birthday to Arthur Schopenhauer - with a reading from his influential book "The World as Will and Representation."

"The Communist Manifesto" is published, so is the first issue of The New Yorker magazine, and happy birthdays to Erma Bombeck and Nina Simone - with a reading from Erma Bombeck's "Family - The Ties That Bind and Gag!"

The U.S. Post Office Department is founded, Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" and Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiere, "The Futurist Manifesto" is published, Prohibition in the U.S. begins to roll back, U.S. film studios allow the government to censor their scripts, and Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" begin to appear on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, and it is the birthday of Ellen Gilchrist - with a reading from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

New Amsterdam becomes New York (again), "The Feminine Mystique" is published, and the birthday club includes Kay Boyle, Carson McCullers, Smokey Robinson, Amy Tan, and Helen Fielding - with a reading from Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is published, the Chicago Seven are acquitted, and the birthday club includes Wallace Stegner and Toni Morrison - with a reading from Morison's "Song of Solomon."

Happy birthdays to Isabelle Eberhardt, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Chaim Potok - with a reading from one of Eberhardt's notebook.

The first anti-discrimination law in the U.S. is passed and happy birthday to Otis Blackwell - with a reading from "Plum Bun," by Jessie Redmon Fauset.

Christopher Columbus, while sailing on the ship "Nina," wrote a letter describing some of the things he saw on his 1492 voyage of discovery, and happy birthday to Susan B. Anthony - with a reading from her book "On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform."

Voyager 1 snaps the picture titled "The Pale Blue Dot," and the birthday club includes Christopher Latham Sholes and Carl Bernstein - with a reading from Anne Bronte's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."

ASCAP takes shape, the Dresden Fire Bombing begins, Australia apologizes for its mistreatment of Aboriginal populations, and the birthday club includes Eleanor Farjeon and Kate Roberts - with a reading from Mary Shelley's masterpiece "Frankenstein."