Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
The shipyard electrician who toppled communism became the first Polish leader ever chosen directly by the people.
In Geneva in 1979, nineteen scientists signed off on humanity's first deliberate extinction of a disease.
In 90 minutes in 1968, one engineer showed a stunned audience the mouse, hypertext, and video calls decades before anyone else.
Network executives braced for a flop; instead nearly half of America's TV sets tuned in to a jazz-scored cartoon.
