Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Five men with bugging gear were caught inside Democratic headquarters in 1972 — the small crime that would end a presidency.
After centuries under foreign crowns, Icelanders gathered on a windswept plain to proclaim a republic of their own.
A Hungarian journalist's fix for smudged ink became the writing tool the world now buys by the billion.
France's colossal gift sailed into New York in 1885 as a flat-pack — 350 copper pieces nailed into 214 wooden crates.
