Japanese-American soldiers rescue hundreds of European Jews during a forced march from the Nazi's Dachau death camp. Dr. Benjamin Spock and Charlotte Armstrong were born on this day - with a reading from Armstrong's "The Unsuspected."

Carl Linnaeus begins using the two, Latin names to classify every living thing, the Memphis Massacre begins, and the workers' rallies marking "The Great Upheaval" begin.

And it is Joseph Heller's birthday, so we hear a reading from his best seller "Catch 22."

The first state park is created in the U.S. and the birthday club includes John Crowe Ransom, Annie Dillard, and Jane Campion - with a reading from Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."

Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Krouse Rosenthal were born on this day. We look at Rosenthal's work and share a reading from her New York Time's essay "You May Want to Marry My Husband."

Muhammad Ali refuses to be drafted into the Vietnam War and Harper Lee and Terry Pratchett were born on this day. This episode includes a reading from Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird."

On her birthday, we look at the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft - including a reading from her landmark work "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."

Napoleon pardons French nobles and the birthday club includes Ma Rainey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Bernard Malamud - with a reading from Malamud's "The Magic Barrel."

The double helix structure of DNA is described for the first time, the patent is issued for the computer microchip, and it's the birthday of Albert King - with a reading from Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."

It is the birthday of the U.S. Library of Congress, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Penn Warren. This episode includes a reading from Trollope's "The Way We Live Now."

George Steiner, Jim Fixx, Roy Orbison, and Victoria Glendinning were born on this day. We look at their work and hear a reading from Steiner's "Lessons of the Masters."