Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
In 1990 two men in police uniforms walked out of a Boston museum with 13 masterpieces - and three decades later, the frames still hang empty.
In 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov floated free outside Voskhod 2 — then nearly couldn't get back inside.
On March 18, 1949, the United States made the proposed North Atlantic Treaty public, letting the world read the alliance before anyone signed it.
Long before the green card, American Express was a Buffalo express company racing parcels and gold across a fast-growing nation.
