Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Before any astronaut could land on the Moon, the spidery lunar module had to prove it could fly with people aboard.
It took more than a century, a five-million-name petition, and a single presidential signature to make a War of 1812 poem America's official song.
The world's most-performed opera was hissed at its debut, and its composer died never knowing it would triumph.
Montreal students swapped a bouncing ball for a flat wooden disk, and modern ice hockey was born indoors.
After three centuries under Spanish, British, and territorial rule, Florida finally joined the Union on a single signature in 1845.
