Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A close vote in Prague rewrote the textbooks, cutting the Solar System's planets from nine to eight.
On a single August night in 1814, an invading army torched the young republic's Capitol and presidential mansion.
August 24, 1456 marks not the press finishing, but the earliest firmly dated copy of Europe's first printed book.
For the first time in roughly 800 years, an enemy army breached the gates of Rome and held the ancient capital hostage.
