Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A stuck valve and a string of misread signals melted half a reactor core and froze American nuclear power for a generation.
A 1930 Turkish postal law made the ancient city's everyday Turkish name its only official one—and refused to deliver mail addressed otherwise.
Two great powers entered the Crimean War on the same day, a conflict now remembered for the doomed charge of the Light Brigade.
