Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a February night in 1945, wave after wave of Allied bombers turned a baroque city into a firestorm that still divides historians.
After twenty-eight years of war, the Treaty of Lisbon finally undid the Iberian Union and confirmed Portugal as its own kingdom again.
Aging and ill, Galileo reached Rome in 1633 to answer for a book that dared put the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of things.
