"The Gunpowder Treason" is discovered, Susan B. Anthony is arrested for voting, George Selden gets the U.S. patent for the automobile, declarations of war pull the Ottoman Empire in World War One, and it's Art Garfunkle's birthday - with a reading of Susan B. Anthony's speech about being arrested and fined for voting.

Sigmund Freud publishes his book "Interpretation of Dreams" and the birthday club includes Will Rogers and Charles Frazier - with a reading from Rogers' newspaper column.

The English Parliament makes Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, Olympe de Gouges is guillotined for her feminist writings, and it is the birthday of Ludovic Kennedy - with a reading from Emily Bronte's classic "Wuthering Heights."

Penguin Books is exonerated of charges of obscenity for publishing D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover," U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson decides the public should hear more optimistic reports of the war in Vietnam, and the birthday club includes Moa Martinson and Isobel Andrews - with a reading from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance."

Shakespeare's "Othello" and "The Tempest" premiere, Edmund Burke publishes his pamphlet "Reflections on the Revolution in France," The U.S. Library of Congress opens its doors, and we mark the birthdays of Stephen Crane and Susanna Clarke. This episode includes a reading from Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage."

Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the Church Door, the Netherlands Leiden University Library opens, and the birthday club includes Marie Louise Andrews, Tom Paxton, Ali Farka Touré, and Susan Orlean - with a reading from W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk."

Nat Turner is arrested for starting a slave rebellion, Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, Orson Wells narrates "The War of the Worlds" and scares some listeners, and the birthday club includes Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Zoe Akins, Ruth Gordon, and Jean Chapman - with a reading from Roberts' "The Time of Man."

The opera "Don Giovanni" premiers in Prague, the International Red Cross is voted into existence, and it is "Black Tuesday" - the stock market crash at the beginning of the Great Depression. It is the birthday of The New Yorker's editor David Remnick and this episode includes a reading from Jane Austen's "Emma."