Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Cornered by Watergate, Nixon assured 400 newspaper editors at Disney World he had never profited from public office.
In 1970 a bathtub-shaped Soviet robot rolled off its lander and began the first remote-controlled drive across the surface of the Moon.
After a decade of digging, a procession of ships sailed the new Suez Canal in 1869, slicing thousands of miles off the route to Asia.
