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Apple passed $2 trillion in market value | The Atlanta Voice

Among its many accomplishments — the iPhone, the iPad, iTunes, the App store — Apple can now boast of one more: It was briefly worth more than $2 trillion, making it the first company in the United States to reach that milestone. The iPhone maker's stock hit the $2 trillion mark before dipping back slightly below that lofty level. Shares […]

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Spelman College, an institution sponsored by John D. Rockefellers family, opened for Negro women in Atlanta, Georgia. It became the Radcliffe and the Sarah Lawrence of Negro education.

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1881

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1970

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1932

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1808

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2

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1981

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