Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
For 27 years, paying passengers could fly faster than a rifle bullet — then it stopped.
Born from the ruins of a world war, the United Nations has grown to include nearly every country on Earth.
On a single panic-stricken morning in 1929, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange buckled and an era of easy riches collapsed.
On her 63rd birthday in 1901, a widowed schoolteacher sealed herself inside an oak barrel and plunged over the Horseshoe Falls — and lived to tell it.
When the wires met at Salt Lake City, a message could cross the continent in minutes instead of days, and the horseback mail was finished overnight.
