Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On June 7, 1965, the justices struck down a contraceptive ban and located a constitutional right to privacy in the Bill of Rights' shadows.
When the Lateran Treaty took effect, a 44-hectare patch of Rome became the world's smallest sovereign country.
On June 7, 1893, a young lawyer thrown off a South African train chose to fight injustice rather than flee it.
On June 7, 1494, two crowns drew an invisible meridian through the Atlantic and calmly divided lands they had never seen.
