Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, a failed seal turned a televised launch into a national tragedy watched live in classrooms.
At 1:58 pm on a January afternoon in 1958, a Danish patent locked in the little plastic brick that still snaps together today.
A novel once rejected by a publisher arrived anonymously in three volumes — and Austen called it her own darling child.
