Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Two paddles, a bouncing dot, and one instruction — "avoid missing ball for high score" — turned a training exercise into an industry.
When Atari unveiled a two-paddle tennis game in 1972, it turned a blinking dot into the spark of an entire industry.
A single ballot on November 29, 1947 split a British-ruled territory in two and reshaped the modern Middle East.
On November 29, 1929, four men in a single trimotor became the first to fly over the bottom of the world and live to land.
