Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A maze, a hungry yellow circle, and four ghosts quietly went on test in Shibuya—the date Namco still calls Pac-Man's birthday.
When a 1,000-kilometre slab of crust slipped beneath Chile in 1960, instruments logged the strongest shock in seismic history.
More than two years after Kitty Hawk, the Wrights won a patent not on a plane but on the very idea of steering one.