Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
One Tennessee lawmaker, swayed by a note from his mother, cast the vote that put women's suffrage into the Constitution.
The only element ever discovered in space first: spotted as a mystery yellow line in the Sun's glare in 1868, decades before a sample existed on Earth.
The first English child born in the Americas arrived weeks before her colony vanished without a trace.
