Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Germany's last great surprise offensive in the West hit the Ardennes at dawn, opening the deadliest battle America fought in the war.
Disguised men boarded three ships at night and threw a fortune in British tea overboard rather than pay the tax on it.
Bonn's parish register records his baptism on December 17, 1770, which points to a birth the day before for one of music's giants.
