Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A new technique called genetic fingerprinting caught a double murderer in 1980s England - and exonerated the wrong suspect before it convicted the right one.
A sixty-second mini-film cast the personal computer as a hammer thrown at conformity, and changed Super Bowl advertising forever.
When Queen Victoria slipped away at her seaside retreat, an empire that had known no other monarch in living memory paused to mourn.
A garrison of barely 150 men held a mud-walled mission station through the night against thousands of Zulu warriors.
