Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On a single autumn day in 2001, Microsoft launched the operating system that would define the PC era for a generation.
Born in Malaga in 1881, he would co-invent Cubism and reshape the entire course of 20th-century art.
On Saint Crispin's Day 1415, Henry V's mud-bound, outnumbered English longbowmen tore apart the cream of French chivalry.
