Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a fog-bound runway in the Canary Islands, two jumbo jets met head-on in the deadliest accident aviation has ever recorded.
On Good Friday 1964, the most powerful quake in US history shook Alaska for nearly five minutes and sent tsunamis across the Pacific.
The German physicist born on this day would later beam invisible rays through flesh and earn the first-ever Nobel Prize in Physics.
Pirates in the Mediterranean pushed a reluctant Congress to vote a navy back into existence, frigate by frigate.
