Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
When a buried Himalayan fault finally slipped one autumn morning, whole mountain towns collapsed in seconds across northern Pakistan and Kashmir.
After months hunted through the mountains, the famed revolutionary was taken alive in a ravine outside La Higuera.
On the same night the world watched Chicago burn, a far deadlier firestorm erased a Wisconsin lumber town.
After a parched summer, a fire in a southwest-side barn raced through wooden Chicago and left a third of the city homeless.
