Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A Turkish gunman opened fire on the pope before thousands of pilgrims, then watched as his target survived and forgave him.
Two short sentences signed by a regent princess made Brazil the last country in the Americas to end slavery.
On a marshy peninsula in the James River, about 100 colonists planted the first permanent English settlement in America.
A 45-minute rout near Glasgow shattered Mary's last bid for the Scottish throne and pushed her into a fatal English exile.
