Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Nineteen grainy seconds in front of two elephants quietly opened the era of online video.
On April 23, 1985, Coca-Cola changed its 99-year-old formula, then watched a furious public force the old recipe back in 79 days.
Founded in 1635, a year before Harvard, Boston Latin still drills Latin into teenagers nearly four centuries later.
The world's most performed playwright died in the same Warwickshire town where he was born, baptised, and finally buried.
