Tuesday, July 28 — National Milk Chocolate Day

What do rock and roll, fingerprints, and the Empire State Building have in common?

Today, we follow Jerry Lee Lewis as he electrifies millions of television viewers and helps push rock and roll into the American mainstream. Then we discover how a simple ink handprint on a contract in colonial India became the first step toward modern fingerprint identification. Finally, we revisit the foggy morning in 1945 when a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building—and the incredible survival story that followed.

Along the way, we celebrate the birthday of beloved author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, whose imagination—and determination—gave the world Peter Rabbit.

History has a funny way of turning ordinary moments into extraordinary legacies. You just never know which small decision, performance, or accident will echo for generations.