Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A routine police raid on a Greenwich Village bar turned into days of protest and a turning point for LGBTQ rights.
Signed in a mirrored hall outside Paris, the peace treaty closed one war and helped seed the next.
Two shots fired at a street corner in Sarajevo set off the chain of alliances and ultimatums that became the First World War.
