Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
When the Soviets sealed off West Berlin, the West chose to feed two million people entirely from the sky.
Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting near Mount Rainier handed the world a phrase he never actually meant to coin.
On June 24, 1812, Napoleon led roughly half a million men across one river and into the campaign that would unmake his empire.
