Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A spokesman misread his notes, and within hours East Germans were streaming through a border that had divided a city for 28 years.
NASA gambled on testing all three stages of its Moon rocket at once, and the uncrewed giant worked on its first try.
One misset relay near Niagara Falls toppled the Northeast's power grid in minutes, plunging eight states and Ontario into a 13-hour night.
