Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A fireball over Chihuahua scattered the most-studied meteorite in history, carrying solids older than the Sun.
On a single Washington morning, an American publisher chartered a youth movement borrowed from Britain.
After 19 years a prisoner, the Scottish queen was executed at Fotheringhay for plotting against her cousin Elizabeth I.
