Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Four days after D-Day, an SS company wiped out a French village and left its ruins standing as evidence.
Two struggling alcoholics met in Akron in 1935 and built a global recovery movement on one simple idea: talk to someone who understands.
A Cunard liner aground in the Atlantic fog gave the new three-letter Morse signal one of its earliest real-world outings.