Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On this day in 1945, the Bretton Woods Articles of Agreement entered into force, creating the IMF and the World Bank.
At the depths of the Great Depression, a 6,000-seat Art Deco palace threw open its doors and crowds waited in the rain to get in.
On this day in 1831, a 22-year-old Darwin left Plymouth on a survey voyage he later called the most important event of his life.
Born on this day in 1571, Kepler replaced ancient perfect circles with ellipses and gave planetary motion its mathematical laws.
