Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a black volcanic island 650 miles from Tokyo, U.S. Marines waded into one of the Pacific War's deadliest fights.
A single wartime signature uprooted some 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them U.S. citizens, into guarded camps.
On this day in 1878, Edison secured a patent for the first machine that could not only capture a human voice but play it back.
Born in 1473, Copernicus dared to put the Sun, not the Earth, at the heart of the cosmos.
