Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On April 21, 1989, a chunky gray brick with a green-tinged screen launched in Japan and quietly redefined portable play.
The Century 21 Exposition threw open its gates on April 21, 1962, unveiling a 605-foot tower built to imagine life in the new century.
In a fight that lasted barely eighteen minutes, a ragged Texan army shattered a Mexican force and birthed a republic.
Roman tradition fixes the birth of the city to April 21, 753 BC, when Romulus is said to have marked out its first walls.
