Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Sixteen minutes from home, Columbia broke apart over Texas, lost to a wound it had carried unseen since launch.
After nearly fifteen years in exile, an aging cleric stepped off a Paris flight and into a revolution that would remake a nation.
Four students ordered coffee at a whites-only counter, refused to leave, and helped set the South alight.
After decades of slips and false starts, the great dictionary finally appeared, and had only reached the word "ant."
A president with no formal role in amending the Constitution still put his name to the resolution that would end American slavery.
