Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A wooden tablet bearing Easter Island's mysterious Rongorongo glyphs radiocarbon-dated to the 1490s, two centuries before any European set foot there.
In a small Iranian resort town, delegates from 18 nations agreed the first global treaty devoted to saving the planet's wetlands.
After months trapped in a frozen city, Hitler's encircled Sixth Army laid down its arms — and the tide of the war turned for good.
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.
On a Dutch holy day in 1653, a tiny fur-trading post at Manhattan's tip won the charter that would one day make it New York.
