Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Jumping from the edge of space in 2012, Felix Baumgartner fell faster than the speed of sound - no aircraft required.
Dropped from a bomber's belly over the California desert, a test pilot with cracked ribs nudged a rocket plane past Mach 1.
In a single day's fighting near the Sussex coast, an English king died and a Norman duke set England on a wholly new course.
