Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On Boxing Day 2004, a megathrust earthquake ruptured some 1,300 kilometres of seafloor and sent waves across an entire ocean.
On December 26, 1898 the Curies told the French Academy of Sciences they had found a new element a million times more radioactive than uranium.
Born on this day in 1791, Babbage designed engines that anticipated the programmable computer by more than a century.
