US Declaration of Independence and a $1 Trillion Apple

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Important Events

  • 338 BC Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean
  • 216 BC Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army under command consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro
  • 1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)
  • 1790 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves
  • 1832 Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US
  • 1858 Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown
  • 2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value
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Today in Film & TV

  • 1973 "American Graffiti", directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland

Today in Music

  • 1961 The Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club

Today in Sport

  • 1864 Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest Thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing

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Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal

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First footage of white giraffes posted by Hirola Conservation Program in north eastern Kenya

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  • 1882 US educational pioneer Booker T. Washington (26) weds Fanny Smith
  • 1904 Novelist Hermann Hesse (27) weds Maria Bernoulli
  • 1930 Laurence McKinley Gould (33), American Geologist and Polar Explorer weds Margaret ("Peg") Rice in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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