Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a Leap Day in 1940, the daughter of formerly enslaved parents walked to a Hollywood podium no Black performer had reached before.
On a leap day in 1692, three women were named as witches, lighting a fuse that would end nineteen lives.
Stranded and starving, Columbus turned an almanac and a blood-red moon into a bluff that fed his crew.
