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-* [[338 BC]] - [[Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)]] 
-* [[219 BC]] - [[Second Punic War]]: [[Battle of Cannae]] - The [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] army lead by [[Hannibal (Barcid)|Hannibal]] defeats a numerically superior [[Roman Republic|Roman]] army under command of [[consul]]s [[Lucius Aemilius Paullus (General)|Lucius Aemilius Paullus]] and [[Gaius Terentius Varro]]. 
-* [[1610]] - [[Henry Hudson]] sails into what it is now known as [[Hudson Bay]], thinking he had made it through the [[Northwest Passage]] and reached the [[Pacific Ocean]]. 
-* [[1776]] - Delegates to the [[Continental Congress]] begin signing the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. 
-* [[1790]] - The first [[US Census]] is conducted. 
-* [[1798]] - [[French Revolutionary Wars]]: [[Battle of the Nile|Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay)]] concludes in an English victory 
-* [[1869]] - [[Japan|Japan's]] [[samurai]], [[farmer]], [[artisan]], [[merchant]] class system ([[Shinōkōshō]]) is abolished as part of the [[Meiji Restoration]] reforms. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[June 25]], [[1869]]). 
-*[[1870]] - [[Tower Subway]], the world's first [[metro|underground tube railway]], opens in [[London]]. 
-*[[1903]] - [[Fall of the Ottoman Empire]]: Unsuccessful uprising of the [[Bulgarians]] in the [[Macedonia (region)|region of Macedonia]] from the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] against [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Turkey]], also known as the [[Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising]]. 
-*[[1916]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary|Austrian]] sabotage causes the sinking of the [[Italy|Italian]] battleship [[Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci|''Leonardo da Vinci'']] in [[Taranto]]. 
-*[[1918]] - [[Japan]] announces that it is deploying troops to [[Siberia]] in the aftermath of [[World War I]]. 
-*[[1931]] - [[Einstein]] urges all scientists to refuse [[military]] work. 
-*[[1934]] - [[Gleichschaltung]]: [[Adolf Hitler]] becomes [[Führer]] of [[Germany]]. 
*[[1937]] - The [[1937 Marihuana Tax Act|Marihuana Tax Act of 1937]] is passed in America, essentially rendering [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] and all its by-products illegal. *[[1937]] - The [[1937 Marihuana Tax Act|Marihuana Tax Act of 1937]] is passed in America, essentially rendering [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] and all its by-products illegal.
*[[1939]] - [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Leó Szilárd]] write a letter to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon. *[[1939]] - [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Leó Szilárd]] write a letter to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.

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