Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Before dawn, Iraqi tanks rolled south into Kuwait, seizing the emirate in hours and igniting the Gulf War.
A two-page letter, signed by the world's most famous physicist, nudged a president toward the nuclear age.
The famous parchment everyone pictures was not signed on the Fourth of July—most names went on the page nearly a month later.
Chasing a shortcut to Asia, an English navigator sailed into a frozen inland sea that would carry his name forever.
