Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On 30 September 1960, Hanna-Barbera's Stone Age sitcom debuted on ABC, becoming the first animated series made for prime-time television and adult audiences.
On a Wisconsin riverbank, a water wheel and an Edison dynamo lit a paper mill and a home—just weeks after Pearl Street.
Just two months before his death, Mozart led the first performance of his last operatic masterwork before a suburban Viennese crowd.
