Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Diving through the Sun's outer atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hit speeds no human-made object has ever matched.
On Christmas Eve 1968 the first humans to circle the Moon read aloud from Genesis to perhaps a billion people back home.
A broken church organ in an Austrian village forced a guitar improvisation that became the world's most translated Christmas carol.
