Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On one March afternoon in 1957, six nations signed a customs deal that quietly grew into the European Union.
Locked doors turned a New York garment loft into a death trap in 1911, and the outrage rewrote workplace-safety law.
An 1807 Act made trafficking enslaved people illegal across the British Empire, yet left those already enslaved in bondage for decades more.
