Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Six weeks after Batista fled, the 32-year-old rebel commander took over the premiership and ended a tug-of-war at the top of the new government.
DuPont's patent crowned years of polymer chemistry, giving the world a fiber spun entirely in the lab rather than off a plant or an animal.
After months clearing the antechamber, Carter breached the sealed wall and met the shrine of a pharaoh untouched for 3,000 years.
