Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A doomsday cult released nerve agent on five rush-hour trains, turning Tokyo's busiest commute into a mass-casualty crime scene.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel arrived in 1852 and instantly became a publishing phenomenon that hardened Northern opinion.
On a single day in 1602, the Dutch parliament chartered a trading firm that would behave like a state — with its own armies, treaties, and coins.
