The birthday club includes Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Tammy Wynette, and Michael Palin - with a reading from Kierkegaard's book "Either/Or."

The May 4th Movement in China and the Kent State shootings in Ohio - with a reading from Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea."

SCOTUS rules against race-based real-estate agreements and the birthday club includes Septima Poinsette Clark and Pete Seeger - with a reading from Clark's "Purpose of Citizenship Schools."

The 522nd Artillery Group stops a WWII forced march and saved hundreds and it's the birthday of pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock - and a reading from Charlotte Armstrong's "The Unsuspected."

England and Scotland form Great Britain, Carl Linnaeus publishes 'Species Plantarum,' which began the use of the two Latin names that identify species, the Memphis Massacre begins, worker rallies lead to the creation of May Day, and it's the birthday of Joseph Heller - with a reading from his novel, 'Catch 22.'

The birthday club includes John Crow Ransom, Annie Dillard, and Jane Campion - with a reading from Dillard's master work "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."

On her birthday, a look back at the writing and other creative work of Amy Krouse Rosenthal - with a reading from her "Modern Love" essay in The New York Times, titled "You May Want to Marry My Husband."

Muhammad Ali refuses to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War and the birthday club includes Harper Lee and Terry Pratchett - with a reading from Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird."