Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a single March morning in 1968, US soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers, and the cover-up that followed scarred a war.
On 16 March 1926, a quiet physicist fired a gasoline-and-oxygen rocket from a snowy field, founding modern rocketry.
On 16 March 1521, after a starving Pacific crossing, Magellan's fleet sighted the Philippines on the first voyage around the world.
