Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
For decades the dollar was redeemable for gold at a fixed price. One August evening, President Nixon ended that - and the modern money system was born.
On a muddy dairy farm in upstate New York, half a million people turned three days of music into a generation's defining gathering.
A 48-mile cut through the isthmus joined two oceans, and the world's shipping routes were never the same.
