Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
After seventy-three years lost in the dark, the Titanic gave itself away with a single rusted boiler.
At dawn on September 1, 1939, German guns opened fire on Poland and pulled the world into its deadliest war.
A noon earthquake toppled two cities in 1923, but it was the firestorms that killed most of the dead.
