Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
After nine years and three billion miles, NASA's New Horizons swept past Pluto on July 14, 2015, the first spacecraft ever to do so.
A washing-machine-sized probe flew past Mars in 1965 and beamed home humanity's first close-up photographs of another planet.
On July 14, 1789, a Paris crowd seized a royal fortress holding just seven prisoners and turned it into the symbol of a revolution.
