Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On November 12, 1990, a CERN memo titled "WorldWideWeb" turned a hypertext daydream into a fundable engineering plan.
On November 12, 1980, Voyager 1 swept within 78,000 miles of Saturn and turned the planet's rings into a structured mystery.
On November 12, 1970, engineers reasoned that a rotting whale was basically a very large boulder. The blubber disagreed.
