Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
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.
