Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
It lifted off on April 11, 1970, as a routine third Moon landing — then an oxygen tank blew, and the mission became a rescue.
On April 11, 1961, a glass booth in Jerusalem held the SS officer who organized the Holocaust's deportations—and an audience of millions watched.
On a single spring day in 1900, the US Navy paid $150,000 for a gasoline-and-electric craft that rewrote naval warfare.
On April 11, 1814, the Treaty of Fontainebleau stripped Napoleon of an empire and handed him a single Mediterranean island to rule.
