Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
For nearly four years a city in the hills was encircled, shelled, and sniped, but never quite surrendered.
Hunting a phantom southern continent, a Dutch fleet stumbled onto one of the most isolated islands on Earth.
A wedding in a Jamestown church briefly stilled the fighting between English colonists and the Powhatan.
