Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a freezing January lunchtime in 1969, the Fab Four climbed onto an office roof and played their last-ever live show.
Walking to an evening prayer meeting in New Delhi, India's apostle of nonviolence was shot dead at point-blank range.
Conservative politicians thought they could control him; instead they handed the keys of a republic to a dictator.
