Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Taking office with banks shuttered and millions jobless, Roosevelt told a frightened nation that fear itself was the real enemy.
The new federal government was due to open for business, but barely a quarter of Congress showed up.
A king's debt to a dead admiral became a 45,000-square-mile woodland and one of history's boldest experiments in religious tolerance.
