August 4·Every year

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day

Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie in 1938 at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts by adding chopped Nestle chocolate to a butter cookie recipe. She sold the recipe to Nestle for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Americans now consume 7 billion chocolate chip cookies annually, and Ruth's deal is studied in every business school.

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Notable · 2020

A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218 people and caused US$15 billion in damage.

2020Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.
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2018Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.