Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
In the early hours of one August night, a high-speed crash in a Paris tunnel killed the world's most photographed woman and stunned a watching planet.
Filed in 1891 but granted six years later, the patent staked Edison's claim to the machine that captured motion onto strips of film.
The killing of Mary Ann Nichols in Whitechapel opened a string of unsolved murders that would terrorize Victorian London.
England's victorious warrior-king died at 35, handing the crown to a son not yet one year old.
