Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Twenty-three minutes on a battleship's deck in Tokyo Bay closed the bloodiest war in human history.
In 1752 Britain went to sleep on 2 September and woke up on the 14th, erasing eleven days by law to fix a centuries-old drift.
One unswept oven on Pudding Lane set off a blaze that burned four-fifths of medieval London to the ground.
On a September afternoon off the Greek coast, a sea fight decided who would rule Rome for the next four centuries.
