Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A virus that killed for millennia was wiped from the wild by a global vaccination campaign — and has never come back.
Doctors said it was physically impossible. In 1978, Messner and Habeler did it anyway.
A pharmacist's headache syrup, mixed with soda water, debuted at a nickel a glass and quietly launched a global brand.
