Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Physicists made a gas of potassium atoms colder than absolute zero on paper, yet hotter than any normal substance can ever be.
Dubai inaugurated a half-mile-high tower that has dominated the global skyline ever since.
On a date picked for good fortune, Burma walked away from British rule and refused to join the Commonwealth other colonies kept.
A free New York musician, drugged and sold south, finally proved his identity and reclaimed his liberty in a Louisiana courthouse.
By the modern calendar, the architect of gravitation and calculus arrived on January 4, 1643.
