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Stacker looked into the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500 list—and several others—to see how they reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Sharon L. Gore (Keller), 79, passed away July 3, 2022 of colon cancer.

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Jerry O. Sheffield, 84, of Jefferson, Oregon, passed away on July 7 at Evergreen Hospice House.

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Ten years ago, Derek Jeter homers for his 3,000th hit, making him the first player to reach the mark with the New York Yankees. See more sports moments from this date:

In September 2017, Puerto Rico experienced a double whammy of devastation when hurricanes Irma and Maria battered the island. Huge swaths of critical infrastructure across the island were destroyed, causing an estimated 3,000 deaths and knocking out power for 1.5…

After accruing a $70 billion public debt load due to decades of mismanagement, corruption, and failed U.S. development policies—in addition to $50 billion in public pension liabilities—Puerto Rico declared bankruptcy, the first-ever U.S. state or territory to do so.A federal…

By the 1990s, Puerto Rico was once again seeking entry to the union to become the 51st state and held a series of referendums to gauge the people’s will.Puerto Ricans in 1993 narrowly opted to remain a commonwealth. In 1998,…

The United Nations recognized Puerto Rico as a commonwealth starting in 1953, citing its ability to have its own constitution and self-elected government. However, as many African nations gained independence from their colonial leaders, the U.N. started taking another look…

Puerto Ricans took to the polls in 1967 for the first of many referendums to determine whether the island should remain a commonwealth, officially become a state, or seek independence. Although fewer than two-thirds of voters participated in this referendum,…

Developed by the U.S. military working in conjunction with the University of Chicago, Agent Orange was a herbicide mixture that could be used during war to kill off vegetation and destroy soldiers’ hiding places. Its development also created dioxin, a…

With the implementation of its own constitution, Puerto Rico opted to be known as a “commonwealth” of the U.S. This didn’t mean Puerto Rico had become a full state of the union; in fact, it remained a U.S. territory.Puerto Rico…

The Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act, also known as Public Law 600, enabled the organization of a local government on the island, including the development of an independent constitution. While the Puerto Rican people were charged with writing and ratifying…

Even though Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the U.S., it competes as its own country at the Olympics.This started at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, which were the first games held after World War II. In seeking more…

As early as 1914, nationalists in Puerto Rico sought independence from the U.S. However, not everyone was inclined to leave U.S. control, including Gov. Piñero, who signed La Ley de La Mordaza—the Gag Law—into law.This outlawed patriotic activities like owning…

President Truman’s appointment of Jesús T. Piñero as the first native to serve as governor of Puerto Rico laid the groundwork for the Elective Governors Act.Piñero chose Antonio Fernós-Isern as his replacement for Resident Commissioner to the U.S. Congress, and…

The U.S. Navy commandeered two-thirds of this 55-square-mile island off the coast of Puerto Rico and used it for military testing and exercises, firing more than 300,000 munitions on the land and water. These included depleted uranium shells, napalm, Agent…

Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín developed Operation Bootstrap in the mid-1940s to modernize Puerto Rico’s economy and lessen its dependence on agriculture. The project focused on industrialization and exports, providing tax exemptions to the U.S. and other foreign companies that invested…

President Franklin Roosevelt created the Puerto Rican Reconstruction Administration as part of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. This extended Roosevelt’s New Deal programs to the island, which was also suffering from the Great Depression and two major hurricanes…