The birthday club includes Albert Murray, Burt Bacharach, Farley Mowat, and George Carlin - with a reading from Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf."

The first book is published and the birthday club includes Harriet Quimby and Irving Berlin, with a reading of Rose Islander's "Love 6."

Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman to run for U.S. President, Winston Churchill becomes UK Prime Minister, and Marvel publishes the first issue of "The Incredible Hulk." The birthday club includes Max Steiner, Ariel Durant, and Bel Kaufman - with a reading from Kaufman's "Up the Down Staircase."

The oldest treaty - that is still in effect - is signed and the birthday club includes J. M. Barrie and Richard Adams - with a reading from Barrie's "Peter Pan."

It is Victory in Europe or "V-E" Day, small pox is declared eradicated, and the birthday club includes Robert Johnson and Naomi Klein - with a reading from Klein's "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate."

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiers, Germans surrender to end WWII in Europe, and the birthday club includes Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala and Angela Carter - with a reading from Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love."

The Works Progress Administration is created and the birthday club includes Orson Welles, Bob Seger, and Martha Nussbaum - with a reading from Nussbaum's "Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities."

The birthday club includes Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Tammy Wynette, and Michael Palin - with a reading from Kierkegaard's "Either / Or."

The May Fourth Movement begins in Beijing, Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" is awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Freedom Riders set out on their bus trip, and the Ohio National Guard shot into a crowd of unarmed demonstrators at Kent State. This episode includes a reading from Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea."

SCOTUS rules against neighborhood covenants that restrict home sales to people of color and Septima Poinsette Clark and Pete Seeger were born on this day - with a reading from Clark's "Citizenship Schools Class Workbook."