Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
The chemist behind chemistry's master chart was home inspecting cheese-makers when his great idea was read aloud for him.
Before dawn on March 6, 1836, Mexican columns stormed a crumbling Texas mission and turned a defeat into a rallying cry.
On March 6, 1665, a London secretary launched Philosophical Transactions, inventing the template for shared, citable scientific research.
