Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
When Radio Shack put a real computer on store shelves for $600, the personal computing era went mainstream overnight.
The first nuclear submarine slipped under the Arctic ice cap and became the first vessel to reach the geographic North Pole.
A 31-year-old salesman with a dozen employees launched a rubber business that would soon roll under millions of automobiles.
Three small ships slipped out of a Spanish port bound west across an uncharted ocean toward a world Europe didn't know existed.
