Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Two tunneling crews, one digging from England and one from France, met under the seabed and reconnected an island to a continent.
At the height of the Cold War, twelve rival countries agreed to keep a whole continent for science and peace.
One seamstress, one seat, and a refusal that set a 381-day boycott and the civil rights movement in motion.
On December 1, 1913, Ford set a chassis in motion past stationary workers and quietly compressed twelve hours of labour into ninety-odd minutes.
On a December dawn in Lisbon, forty conspirators stormed the royal palace and ended sixty years of Spanish rule.
