The Times of London starts using a steam-powered printing press, and happy birthdays to Berry Gordy and Rita Mae Brown - with a reading from "The Country of the Pointed Firs," by Sarah Orne Jewett.

The American Statistical Association is established, "Also sprach Zaruthustra" premiers, and the birthday club includes Charles A. Beard and Gail Sheehy - with a reading from "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Alexandre Dumas.

"Black Beauty" is published, and the birthday club includes Frances Hodgson Burnett and Arundhati Roy - with a reading from Burnett's "The Secret Garden."

John Milton publishes "Areopagitica," prohibiting prescribing beer in the U.S., Edwin Hubble publishes his finding the Andromeda was a galaxy, "Doctor Who" premiers, and the birthday club includes Theodore Dwight Weld and Patricia Kathleen Page - with a reading from "The Enchanted April," written by Elizabeth von Arnim.

The birthday club includes George Eliot, Hoagy Carmichael, Rodney Dangerfield, and Terry Gilliam - with a reading from "The Mill on the Floss," by George Eliot.

Measuring the speed of light, introducing the phonograph, mass-energy equivalence, allowing women to serve in the UK Parliament, and happy birthday to Voltaire and Elizabeth George Speare - with a reading from Voltaire's "Candide."

European powers sign the second Treaty of Paris, a whale attacks and destroys the Nantucket whaling ship The Essex, the UN adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the Velvet Revolution intensifies, and the birthday club includes Selma Lagerlof, Alistair Cook, and Don DeLillo - with a reading from Lagerlof's "Gosta Berling's Saga."

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.

The U.S. time zones are adopted, Britain's Black Friday saw violence against women demonstrating for their right to vote, South Africa ends minority rule of White people, and the birthday club includes Howard Thurman and Margaret Atwood - with a reading from "A Girl of the Limberlost," written by Gene Stratton-Porter.

President Nixon says, "I am not a crook," the first case of COVID-19 is traced back to an open-air food market in Wuhan, the birthday club includes Peter Cook and Rebecca Walker - with a reading from "Pollyanna," by Eleanor Porter.