Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On election night 2008, a first-term senator from Illinois won a decisive Electoral College victory and made American history.
When Americans went to the polls on November 4, 2008, more of them cast ballots than in any presidential race in 40 years.
Iranian students stormed the American embassy in 1979, holding dozens of diplomats captive for a span that doomed a presidency.
Almost every other royal tomb was looted in antiquity; this one survived, packed with treasure.
