1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)
1865 Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
1880 British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
1931 Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1934 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces
1980 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
1986 Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran
1990 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
1999 “The Sixth Sense”, starring Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, and Haley Joel Osment, premieres
2017 Great Britain’s Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements
2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value
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