Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Five months after the Charter took effect, delegates from 51 nations gathered in a London hall to give the new United Nations its voice.
On a hill near Beaumont, a single well roared to life and rewrote the future of American energy.
Steam-hauled, gas-lit trains began running beneath the capital's streets, launching the world's first underground passenger railway.
In one 47-page pamphlet, an immigrant clerk turned wavering colonists into committed revolutionaries.
