Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand inaugurated a rail tunnel beneath the sea, joining Britain to the Continent for the first time since the Ice Age.
A 25-year-old medical student ran the mile in under four minutes in 1954 - and then watched his 'impossible' barrier fall again within weeks.
A German hydrogen Zeppelin caught fire over its New Jersey mooring mast, and the age of passenger airships died with it.
