Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
In a Kremlin hall, two superpowers agreed to dismantle a third of the arsenals they had spent decades building.
The young United States issued patent number one in 1790 — for a better way to make potash from wood ashes.
In 1715 a July hurricane sank eleven silver-laden Spanish ships off Florida, creating the coastline now called the Treasure Coast.
