Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Twelve nations signed a single page that, for the first time, made mercy in war a matter of law.
On a single August night in 1791, enslaved people in a French colony lit the fuse on the only slave revolt ever to found a nation.
On a Leicestershire field, Richard III became the last English king to die in battle and the Tudor century began.
