Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
After a 70-year fight, a single signature one quiet morning made women's suffrage part of the US Constitution.
A volcano in the Sunda Strait began the explosive convulsions that would make one of the loudest, deadliest blasts in recorded history.
In the heat of revolution, France's assembly proclaimed liberty, property, and equality before the law as natural, inalienable rights.
On a single August day in 1278, one cavalry clash on a flat Austrian plain set a dynasty on the path to ruling Europe for centuries.
