Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
The guns of the Western Front fell silent at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, ending four years of industrialized slaughter on a poetic timestamp.
Anchored off Cape Cod outside any legal charter, 41 men signed a pledge to govern themselves by 'just and equal laws.'
A blazing point in Cassiopeia, brighter than Venus, let a young Danish astronomer prove the supposedly perfect heavens could change.