Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Spurred by a deadly race riot, a biracial coalition launched what became America's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
The naturalist whose voyage and patient study would reshape biology was born the same day as Abraham Lincoln.
Seventeen and a reluctant monarch, Jane Grey lost her head on Tower Green after a rebellion she never plotted sealed her fate.
