Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A solar-powered spacecraft set off on a five-year, 1.7-billion-mile cruise to read Jupiter's hidden interior.
A cave-in sealed 33 men half a mile beneath the Atacama Desert, beginning a 69-day ordeal that ended in a televised rescue.
Hollywood's brightest star was discovered dead in her Los Angeles home, her death ruled an acute barbiturate poisoning.
On 5 August 1957, Dick Clark's Philadelphia teen dance show went out across the ABC network, turning a local programme into a national phenomenon.
For a few short weeks in 1858, a fragile copper thread on the ocean floor stitched two continents together in minutes instead of weeks.
