Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
When he trotted out to first base on April 15, 1947, one rookie ended six decades of segregation in America's pastime.
The unsinkable ship went down in under three hours after a midnight iceberg strike, taking over 1,500 lives.
On April 15, 1755, after nearly nine years of work, Johnson released the dictionary that would govern English for a century.
On April 15, 1452, the painter and polymath who would define the Renaissance was born in a Tuscan hill town.
