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.
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.
