Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Twenty years after the first woman flew at all, a 32-year-old physicist finally carried the United States into that club.
On a muddy Sunday south of Brussels, an emperor's gamble collapsed and twenty-three years of European war ground to a halt.
On June 18, 1812, the young American republic took the unprecedented step of formally declaring war on the world's leading naval power.
Five Canterbury witnesses swore the new Moon split and spat fire; centuries later, scientists are still arguing about what they saw.
