Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A magnitude-9.0 megathrust quake off Japan unleashed a towering tsunami and triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
A day after Chernenko died, the Politburo handed its youngest member the keys to a superpower that would not outlive him in office.
Hone Heke's axe brought down a British flagpole for the fourth time, opening the first serious armed challenge to the Crown after the Treaty of Waitangi.
