Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On December 13, 2003, U.S. forces pulled the deposed Iraqi leader from a cramped "spider hole" near his hometown of Tikrit.
On December 13, 1642, a Dutch trading expedition spotted a strange coast on the horizon and stumbled into the bottom of the world.
On December 13, 1577, five ships slipped out of Plymouth on the voyage that made Drake the first Englishman around the world.
