Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Iraqi jets and tanks swept into Iran, opening one of the 20th century's longest and bloodiest conventional wars.
Five days after Antietam, Lincoln warned the rebel states: free your enslaved people by January, or the Union will.
A bookbinder's apprentice with almost no schooling grew up to discover the principle behind every electric generator.
