Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
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.
