Episode Details

John Milton publishes the proclamation defending freedom of the press "Areopagitica," the U.S. bars prescriptions of beer, Hubble publishes his proof that Andromeda was a galaxy, and the BBC airs the first episode of "Dr. Who." The birthday club includes Theodore Dwight Weld and P.K. Page - with a reading from Elizabeth von Arnim's "The Enchanted April."