Samuel de Champlain starts the French-Iroquois War, Walt Disney releases the first of many, many Oscar-winning productions, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson creates Medicare and Medicaid, and it is the birthday of Maria Anna Mozart and Emily Bronte - with a reading from "Withering Heights."

Light becomes a wave, too, The Hague Convention, and birthdays of Alexis de Tocqueville, Charlie Christian, Mary Lee Settle - with a reading from Tocqueville's "Democracy in America."

Lavinia Ream sculpts a statue for the ages, the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is ratified, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, the U.S. begins its 19-year occupation of Haiti, President Hoover and General Douglas MacArthur attack the veterans and their families who made up "The Bonus Army," and the IRA promises to no longer use weapons - with a reading from "The Death of the Heart," by Elizabeth Bowen.

The actual Macbeth, King of Scotland, loses an important battle, Robespierre is arrested, researchers in Toronto prove the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar, Bugs Bunny hits screens for the first time - with a reading from “The House of Clouds” written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The American colonies create a post office, Esperanto becomes a language, the Red Army captures the Ukrainian city of Lviv, the Potsdam Declaration, President Harry S. Truman desegregates the U.S. military, and streaming birthday cakes for George Bernard Shaw, Carl Jung, and Gracie Allen - with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's writing.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes his 40th Symphony, writer Jack London sets sail for the Yukon, JFK pledges his solidarity with West Berlin, and it's the birthday of Anne Applebaum - with a reading of “In the Land of Words,” by Eloise Greenfield.

O. Henry gets out of prison, the Kellogg-Briand Pact goes into effect, the highest temperatures of the heat wave that caused the American Dust Bowl, the U.S. Supreme Court delivers a death knell to Richard Nixon's Presidency, and audio birthday cakes for Alexandre Dumas and Zelda Fitzgerald - with a reading from a letter Zelda wrote to her husband Scott.

The Ford Motor Company sells its first car, the Chinese Communist Party is established on a party barge, the 'ruler' of Vichy France is put on trial for Treason, and it's Raymond Chandler's birthday - with a reading from "The Last Man," by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Katherine Lee Bates starts writing "America the Beautiful" and it's the birthday of Emma Lazarus - with a reading of "America the Beautiful."

The first showdown in America's Wild West, John Scopes was found guilty of teaching the science of evolution in biology class, the coldest temperature on Earth - with a reading from Willa Cather's "My Mortal Enemy."