Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Around 30 people paid a franc to sit in a cafe cellar and watch the first commercial movie screening in history.
On this day in 1895, Rontgen submitted the paper announcing X-rays, giving medicine its first look inside the living body.
On a gale-lashed Sunday night in 1879, Scotland's longest railway bridge fell into the Firth of Tay with a train aboard.
