Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Microsoft's stock hit the market at $21 a share, raised $61 million in a day, and quietly minted a generation of millionaires.
After a year of patient sky-blinking, a 24-year-old Kansan found a new world—and an observatory waited weeks to tell anyone.
A musician sweeping the sky from his garden spotted a slow-moving point of light, the first planet ever found through a telescope.
A dying clergyman's gift of books and money won the new colonial college a name that would outlast empires.
