June 29, 1888: The World’s Oldest Recording

On a summer day in 1888, in a London church brimming with both acoustics and ambition, George Edward Gouraud—an American-born Civil War veteran turned English promoter—captured something no one before him had ever successfully preserved in such form: the grandeur of classical choral music,…

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June 27, 1974: Nixon Returns To The USSR

On June 27, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon arrived in Moscow for what would be his final summit with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev—a visit overshadowed by scandal at home and a shifting geopolitical order abroad. Though the meeting marked a continuation of the historic…

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June 26, 2000: The Genomic Age Begins

It was a moment suspended between science and scripture: on June 26, 2000, mankind read the first legible draft of its own instruction manual. In simultaneous announcements from Washington, D.C. and London, leaders of the public Human Genome Project and its private-sector competitor, Celera…

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