Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
After a fourteen-month trial over a single village massacre, Iraq's deposed dictator was hanged at dawn on a sacred holiday.
On the last days of 1922, four republics signed a Treaty of Union that bound them into the USSR — a state that would last nearly seventy years.
A cash-strapped Santa Anna sold a strip of desert that fixed America's southwestern border — and cleared a path for a southern railroad.
