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.
Five Canterbury witnesses swore the new Moon split and spat fire; centuries later, scientists are still arguing about what they saw.
