Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
A single Famicom cartridge launched on a Friday in 1985 and rewrote what a video game could be.
A railway foreman survived a tamping iron blasted clean through his brain, leaving a riddle about where personality lives.
A 25-hour British shelling of a Baltimore fort failed to lower one flag, and gave a young lawyer his most famous lines.
