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.
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.
