The first edition of the Scientific American magazine is published, Caleb Bradham changes the name of his "Brad's Drink" to something more soothing, and it is the anniversary of Emmett Till's death in 1955 as well as the anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

The Famous Five and the "persons" question, the Kellogg-Briand pact, and the birthday club includes Hegel, C.S. Forester, and Alice Coltrane - with a reading from "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the U.S. patent for the steamboat, Quebec adopts the Charter of the French Language, and today's birthday club includes Zona Gale, Caroline Pafford Miller, and Ben Bradlee - with a reading from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Great Moon Hoax, discovering the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague, the U.S. National Park Service is created, instant ramen noodles are marketed for the first time, and in today's birthday club: Walt Kelly and Leonard Bernstein - with a reading from "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Bronte.

The last writing in Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Treaty of Cordoba, the Panic of 1857, Yippies disrupt trading on the NYSE by throwing dollar bills onto the trading floor, birthdays for Howard Zinn, Paulo Coelho, and Ava DuVernay - with a reading from "My Antonia," by Willa Cather.

England’s King George III proclaims the American colonists are rebelling, Japan declares war on Germany, the Salad Bowl Strike, and the World Wide Web opens to the public, and happy birthday to William Ernest Henley - with a reading from Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish.

The Cadillac Motor Company, the Siege of Leningrad, and happy birthday to Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury, and Annie Proulx - with a reading from Frederick Douglass.

James Cook claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion begins in Virginia, the first of seven debates is held between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas - with a reading from "Minnie’s Sacrifice," written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Charles Darwin rushes to get his theory of evolution published, U.S. President Andrew Johnson formally declares the Civil War is over, Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts, British PM Winston Churchill recognizes the Royal Air Force in his speech, "Never was so much owed by so many to so few," Canada's Supreme Court rules that Quebec can't secede from Canada unless Parliament agrees to it, and today's birthday club includes H. P. Lovecraft, Tarjei Vesaas, and Vilhelm Moberg - with a reading from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," by Mark Twain.

Infamous witch trials in England and the U.S., the Daguerrotype photo process is proclaimed free to anyone, the California Gold Rush makes news in New York City - seven months after it began, the liberation of Paris, happy birthday with no rash for dear poet Ogden Nash - with a reading from "The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories," by Gertrude Atherton.