Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
U.S. cavalry killed hundreds of largely disarmed Lakota near a South Dakota creek, a slaughter long marked as the close of the Indian Wars.
After nearly a decade as an independent republic, Texas joined the Union in 1845 — a move that helped ignite war with Mexico.
Four of King Henry II's knights cut down the Archbishop of Canterbury at his own altar, creating one of medieval Europe's most powerful martyrs.
