Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
As crowds stormed his headquarters, the man who ruled Romania for 24 years escaped from the roof in a helicopter.
In December 1938 a South African museum curator pulled an "impossible" fish from a trawler's catch, reviving a lineage science had buried with the dinosaurs.
On December 22, 1894, a French court-martial wrongly convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus of treason, igniting a scandal that exposed deep antisemitism.
An Edison associate wired a tree with tiny bulbs and set it spinning, replacing the open flame of holiday candles.
On a freezing Vienna evening in 1808, a four-hour concert unveiled two symphonies that would reshape Western music.
