Today in History, in Six Minutes

Eagle reached the Sea of Tranquility after computer alarms and a last search for safe ground. The first footstep came later, while Michael Collins remained in orbit with the route home. This episode follows the landing, the moonwalk and the journey...

Before dawn on July 16, 1945, the Manhattan Project tested the first nuclear device at Trinity in New Mexico. This episode follows the plutonium design, the delayed shot, what observers saw, and the people living nearby and downwind who had not been...

Louis Réard's bikini appeared at Paris's Piscine Molitor on 5 July 1946. Two-piece swimsuits already existed, and Jacques Heim had introduced another brief design. This episode follows the rival claims, the name borrowed from Bikini Atoll, and why a...

Franz Ferdinand and Sophie survived a bomb attack in Sarajevo. Then their car stopped near Gavrilo Princip. We trace the two attempts on 28 June 1914 and the political decisions that followed, without treating a wrong turn as the sole cause of World...

Napoleon hoped to keep Wellington's army and Blücher's Prussians apart. Two days after defeat at Ligny, the Prussians were still marching toward Waterloo. This episode follows the ridge, the defended farms, the Imperial Guard's failed final attack and...