Marie-Joseph Angélique - because even the city she allegedly burned thinks she should be remembered, Chinese Empress Cixi, Mississippi Burning, and Jean-Paul Sartre - with a reading from his book "Being and Nothingness."

Samuel Morse receives a patent for the telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell's father uses his son's tech to set up the first telephone exchange, the Detroit Race Riot of 1943, "Jaws" hits the silver screen, and it's Lillian Hellman's birthday - with a reading from her memoir "Pentimento."

The Nicene Creed, the first officially recorded and organized baseball game, Juneteenth, and the Civil Rights Act of 1963 and 1964 - with a reading from President John F. Kennedy's speech describing the legislation and the nation's need of it.

The Battle of Waterloo, Charles Darwin learns that fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace has developed a theory of evolution almost identical to Darwin's, English Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his "Finest Hour" speech, Paul McCartney and Roger Ebert were born on the same day - with a reading from Churchill's "Finest Hour."

Sir Francis Drake puts his mark on the New World, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor, Watergate, Juneteenth, Igor Stravinsky, and Ruth Graves Wakefield - with a reading about the legislation that made Juneteenth a national holiday in the U.S.

Abraham Lincoln delivers his "House Divided" speech and it's Bloomsday! For the romantics, the lovers of literature, and anyone who has walked down Nassau Street in Dublin or even dreamt of it, today is the day - in 1904 - that James Joyce met Nora Barnacle for their first date. This is also the day of the events in Joyce's landmark novel "Ulysses." It is also the birthday of Joyce Carol Oates - with a reading from her novel "Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang."

King John of England assents to the Magna Carta, Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is, in fact, electricity, Arlington is designated a National Military Cemetery, and it is the birthday of Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde - with a reading from his poem "Because of this Modest Style."

Flag Day in the U.S., Charles Babbage proposes his difference engine, the Bear Flag Revolt, and the birthday of Harriett Beecher Stowe - with a reading from "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Miranda rights, Thurgood Marshall is nominated to the Supreme Court, the Pentagon Papers, and William Butler Yeats - with a reading of his poem "The Second Coming."

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason, for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank was given a blank book she used as a diary, Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa, and in the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, Loving won. Also, a reading from Rona Jaffe's best-selling debut novel "The Best of Everything."