On this day:
1776: United States Declaration of Independence is adopted in Philadelphia
1865: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is published for the first time
1946: the Philippines gains independence from the United States
2012: Discovery of Higgs boson particle is announced at CERN
Gone on this day:
1902: Swami Vivekananda, the spiritual leader who carried Yoga to the Western world
1934: Marie Curie, Polish chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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