Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a sweltering Cape Town afternoon, the world's most famous political prisoner stepped through the gates and into the end of apartheid.
Italy and the Holy See ended a 59-year standoff by carving out the world's smallest sovereign state — barely a quarter of a square mile.
The future holder of a record 1,093 patents arrived in a small Ohio canal town, three years before his family moved on.
