Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
After a two-year crime spree, the Depression-era robbers were cut down in a hail of gunfire on a rural Louisiana road.
The Swedish botanist who gave every living thing a tidy two-word Latin name was born on this day in 1707.
The privateer-turned-pirate was sent to the gallows at Execution Dock in 1701 — and the rope broke on the first try.
