Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A 20-second jolt before dawn flattened a modern Japanese city and shattered the country's faith in quake-proof engineering.
A gruff, one-eyed deckhand wandered into a ten-year-old comic strip and accidentally became one of America's most enduring icons.
Cook sailed farther south than any recorded ship before him, hunting a southern continent he would never actually see.
