Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
At 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, a test meant to improve safety instead destroyed a reactor and scattered fallout across Europe.
One trucking entrepreneur's metal box quietly made globalisation possible.
When thousands of stones pelted a French town in 1803, one young physicist finally convinced science that rocks really do fall from the sky.
