Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A bit player with a temper and an unintelligible squawk waddled into a barnyard cartoon and never left.
A single line in an 1898 convention — "ninety-nine years" — quietly set the clock running on British Hong Kong.
Abandoned by his guards and condemned by the Senate, Nero ended the line that had ruled Rome since Augustus.
