Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a single December midnight, twenty-six Irish counties slipped free of direct British rule and a new self-governing dominion was born.
A wartime harbor collision detonated a shipload of munitions, leveling a city district in the loudest blast before the atomic age.
Georgia's vote pushed the amendment past the three-fourths mark, ending slavery as a legal institution nationwide.
