Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
With a smuggled club head and a one-handed swing, an Apollo 14 astronaut became the first—and only—person to play golf on another world.
On a winter morning at Cape Canaveral, America's mightiest two-stage missile lifted off—carrying nothing but water where its warhead would go.
On a single February morning in 1840, dozens of Maori chiefs and the British Crown signed the document that still defines New Zealand.
By a razor-thin vote, the Bay State said yes to the Constitution—but only after attaching a wish list that helped birth the Bill of Rights.
