The London Gazette, Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered by a mob bent on destroying his printing press, the women of Colorado get the right to vote, Jeanette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to Congress, and happy birthday to Albert Camus and Joni Mitchell - with a reading from "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Charter of the Forest is sealed, and the birthday club includes Derrick Bell, Michael Cunningham, and Colton Whitehead - with a reading from "Anne of Green Gables," by L. M. Montgomery.

Guy Fawkes is found guarding a large pile of gunpowder under the English House of Parliament, Susan B. Anthony is arrested and fined $100 for voting, the U.S. issues its first patent for the automobile, France and England declare war on the Ottoman Empire, and happy birthday to the Android mobile operating system and Art Garfunkel - with a reading from Susan B. Anthony's "convicted" speech.

Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams," and happy birthday to Will Rogers and Charles Frazier - with a reading from Will Rogers newspaper column.

England's first and second Act of Supremacy, Olympe de Gouges is guillotined for writing about women's rights, creating the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, and happy birthday to Ludovic Kennedy - with a reading from "Wuthering Heights," by Emily Bronte.

The Balfour Declaration, Penguin Books faces prosecution for publishing "Lady Chatterley's Lover," LBJ and his "Wise Men" decide to give the U.S. more optimistic reports on the progress of the Vietnam War, and the birthday club includes Moa Martinson and Isobel Andrews - with a reading from "Self Reliance," by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

William Shakespeare's "Othello" and "The Tempest" premier in London, English statesman Edmund Burke publishes his polemic on the French Revolution, the U.S. Library of Congress gets its own building, and happy birthday to Stephen Crane and Susanna Clark - with a reading from "The Red Badge of Courage," by Stephen Crane.

Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on a church door, the Netherlands' Leiden University Library opens, today's birthday club includes Marie Louise Andrews, Tom Paxton, and Ali Farka Touré - with a reading from W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folks."

Nat Turner is arrested for starting a slave revolt in Virginia, Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, the radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’s "The War of the Worlds," Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers and breaks the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and today's birthday club includes Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Zoe Akins, Ruth Gordon, and Jean Chapman - with a reading from "The Time of Man," by Elizabeth Madox Roberts.

The opera "Don Giovanni" opens in Prague, The Red Cross is established, "Black Tuesday" on the New York Stock Exchange, and happy birthday to David Remnick - with a reading from Jane Austen's "Emma."