Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a August morning in 1974, a young Frenchman strolled across a steel cable strung 1,350 feet above lower Manhattan.
After 101 days drifting across the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions ran aground on a remote atoll and made it ashore.
