"Vogue" publishes its first issue, and the birthday club includes Ford Madox Ford and William Safire - with a reading from Ford's "The Good Soldier."

Happy birthday to Jane Austen - with a reading from her masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice."

Patenting the ice cream cone maker, the film "Gone with the Wind" hits the silver screen, the declaration that homosexuality was not a psychological disorder, British and Irish leaders issue the Downing Street Declaration - with a reading from "Crime and Punishment," by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Stretching the first under-sea, trans-Pacific telegraph cable, the Wright Brothers make their first try at powered flight, Roald Amundsen and his team reach the South Pole, UNESCO adopts the Convention against Discrimination in Education, and happy birthdays to Anne Conway and Shirley Jackson - with a reading from "Oliver Twist," by Charles Dickens.

The Plymouth Colony opts for a 12-person jury, the founding of the U.S. National Guard, The Rape of Nanjing, and the birthday club includes Jean Gerson and Jamie Foxx - with a reading from "Persuasion," by Jane Austen.

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change is adopted, and it is the birthday of Gustave Flaubert - with a reading from his landmark novel "Madame Bovary."

French King Louis XVI goes on trial for treason, British General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine gets emergency approval for use in the U.S., and it is the birthday of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - with a reading from "The Gulag Archipelago."

The UN adopts the Charter on Genocide and happy birthday to Dalton Trumbo - with a reading from "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen.

A woman performs for the first time on a public English stage, and happy birthdays to John Banville and Mary Gordon - with a reading from "House of Mirth," by Edith Wharton.

Japan attacks the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, and it is the birthday of Willa Cather - with a reading from Cather's "My Antonia."