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.
Long before the green card, American Express was a Buffalo express company racing parcels and gold across a fast-growing nation.
