Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
The original jumbo jet lifted off near Seattle in 1969 and reshaped how ordinary people cross oceans.
On a Sunday night in 1964, four young men from Liverpool walked onstage and roughly 73 million Americans never quite recovered.
A one-line act of Congress put the U.S. Army in the forecasting business and built the backbone of modern storm warnings.
When no candidate won an electoral majority in 1824, the U.S. House did something it has done only twice: choose the president itself.
