Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
In a small Iranian resort town, delegates from 18 nations agreed the first global treaty devoted to saving the planet's wetlands.
Twenty mushers and 150 dogs ran antitoxin across frozen Alaska in a relay against a diphtheria outbreak.
A Scottish sailor who'd asked to be left ashore was found four years later, half-wild in goatskins.
