Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
At the 1990 Washington summit, the superpowers agreed to stop making chemical weapons and destroy most of their stockpiles.
When CNN signed on from Atlanta in 1980, it turned news from a fixed appointment into something always available.
Mortally wounded as the British stormed his frigate, James Lawrence gasped a command that became the U.S. Navy's enduring motto.
It was the first state carved entirely from federal territory, a template for how the young nation would grow westward.
A 1494 tax entry granting a friar malt 'to make aqua vitae' is the earliest paper trail of Scotch distilling.
