Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
In 1992 a 22-year-old engineer typed two words into a computer and accidentally launched the way billions of us would talk.
A cloud of poison gas drifted over a sleeping Indian city, killing thousands in hours and maiming half a million more.
In a Cape Town theatre, a daring surgeon stitched a dead woman's heart into a dying man and watched it beat again.
