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Nat Turner is arrested for starting a slave revolt in Virginia, Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, the radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’s "The War of the Worlds," Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers and breaks the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and today's birthday club includes Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Zoe Akins, Ruth Gordon, and Jean Chapman - with a reading from "The Time of Man," by Elizabeth Madox Roberts.