Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a deliberately symbolic January day in 1919, the victors of the Great War gathered in Paris to remake the world's borders.
A daredevil pilot, a wooden platform of sandbags and ropes, and the unlikely birth of naval aviation.
Sailing north for a polar passage, Cook stumbled onto islands no European had recorded, and named them for his patron.
