Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
After 108 years, the modern Games came home to Greece, the country that hosted the first Olympics of the modern era.
Overnight on August 13, 1961, East Germany sealed off West Berlin, dividing a city—and families—for 28 years.
Born August 13, 1888 in Scotland, Baird gave the world its first public demonstration of working television.
After a brutal months-long siege, the island capital of the Aztec Empire surrendered, reshaping the history of the Americas.
