Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Belka and Strelka circled Earth seventeen times and came home wagging, clearing the way for human spaceflight.
A staged 1934 vote fused Germany's top two offices into one man, sealing Hitler's grip with a veneer of popular consent.
Before the bricks and the famous 500, a short five-mile dash on crushed stone opened America's most storied racetrack.
France bought a photographic process, then handed it to the world royalty-free, and the modern image was born.
