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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and so...

Wednesday Dec 16, 1936 to Present
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Xerox

Xerox Holdings Corporation (also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print ...

Wednesday Apr 18, 1906 to Present
Theodelinda married Agilulf

The Kingdom of the Lombards also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of Italy, was an ea...

568 to 774
Kheops-Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid comple...

26th Century BC to Present
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The German revolutions of 1848–1849, the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution...

1848 to 1849
Barack Obama Image
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as t...

Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
Red Dog statue

Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) was a kelpie/cattle dog cross that was well known for his trave...

1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
A Colombian marine on a field training exercise

The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
Flames engulf a building following the outbreak of hostilities between the Panamanian Defense Force and U.S. forces during Operation Just Cause

The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause occurred between mid-December 1...

Wednesday Dec 20, 1989 to Wednesday Jan 31, 1990
Brexit
Brexit

Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit") is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the...

Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
Marco van Basten

Marcel "Marco" van Basten born 31 October 1964) is a Dutch football manager and former professional ...

Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
The Great Stupa at Sanchi
Ancient India

According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian su...

31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
Microsoft Corporation current (2019) logo
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, ...

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
Hachiko Image
Hachikō

Hachikō (November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935) was a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his remarkable l...

Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
Wordmark of Sony - image

Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato...

Tuesday May 7, 1946 to Present
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights a...

1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
Orderly repatriation of Argentine army POWs 1982
Falklands War

The Falklands War was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over...

Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
Linux logo Tux Image
Linux

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating...

Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
Princess Diana Image

Was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and th...

Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (14/15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), known as Leonardo da Vinci, was an I...

Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
Dżok Monument
Džok

EDżok is a Black mongrel dog (1990–1991), throughout the entire year, Dżok was seen waiting in vain ...

1990 to 1998
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician who was the 45th president of the U...

Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
 Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

1645 to Nov, 1979
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party (N...

Saturday Apr 20, 1889 to Monday Apr 30, 1945
Juan Trippe
Juan Trippe

Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan A...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
Bay of Pigs Invasion Image

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligen...

Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current President of Turkey sin...

Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a c...

1865 to Present
Lula da Silva Image
Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian pol...

Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

Qaboos bin Said Al Said (18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was the Sultan of Oman from 23 July 197...

Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch physician and physiologist. He invent...

Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
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Gary Webb

Gary Stephen Webb was an American investigative journalist. He began his career working for newspape...

Thursday Aug 31, 1995 to Friday Dec 10, 2004
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfg...

Tuesday Jan 27, 1756 to Wednesday May 11, 1791
PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Ente...

Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle, lasting roughly from 1910 to 1920, that transform...

Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American film actor and politician who...

Monday Feb 6, 1911 to Saturday Jun 5, 2004
Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name, The Rock, is an American-Can...

Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
Silvio Berlusconi Image

Silvio Berlusconi (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served ...

Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 to Present
Xiaomi logo Image
Xiaomi

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded in April 2010 and headquartered in Beiji...

Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United Sta...

Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
Facebook Image

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Men...

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
Alan Turing
Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philo...

Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
NATO flag

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernme...

Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the fi...

Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first ...

Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international pea...

Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
Mamluk lancers
Mamluks

The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz that established itse...

1250 to 1517
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s to Present
Samuel Little

Samuel Little was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, all women. He was ...

Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author....

Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Qasem Soleimani

Qasem Soleimani (11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian Major General in the Islamic Revolut...

Monday Mar 11, 1957 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for i...

2000s BC to 1697
Yersinia pestis
Plague

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, wea...

14th Century to Present
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Unit...

Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
Osama bin Laden Image
Bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), also rendered Usama bin Ladin,...

Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is the collective name of a series of fortification systems generally built ...

220s BC to Present
Aramean funeral stele Louvre
Arameans

The Arameans were an ancient Semitic-speaking people in the Near East, first recorded in historical ...

1110s BC to 730s BC
Chris Gardner and his Son

Christopher Jarrett Medina Gardner was born to Chris Gardner and Jackie Medina, on 28 January 1981. ...

Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
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Android

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open ...

Oct, 2003 to Present
Oculus Rift

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from t...

1838 to Present
Father's Day
Father's Day

Father's Day is a day of honoring fatherhood, paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in...

1908 to Present
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-C...

1438 to 1533
Nintendo Image
Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquart...

Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 19...

1929 to 1933
Willis Carrier Image

Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known f...

Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
1935 Quetta earthquake

The 1935 Quetta earthquake occurred on 31 May between 2:33 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, Br...

Friday May 31, 1935 to Friday May 31, 1935
Jair Bolsonaro Image

Jair Messias Bolsonaro (born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer, ...

Monday Mar 21, 1955 to Present
Giannis Antetokounmpo

Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee ...

Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
Kingdom of Pergamon

The Attalid dynasty or the Kingdom of Pergamon ​was a Hellenistic Greek dynasty that ruled much of A...

282 BC to 133 BC
A jack-o'-lantern, one of the symbols of Halloween
Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhallo...

1745 to Present
Battle at Soufflot barricades at Rue Soufflot

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime ...

Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff OON (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football playe...

Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
FIFA logo

The FIFA World Cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA, the world's football governing body, decided t...

Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Ru...

Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabet...

Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
Chumlee
Chumlee

Austin Lee Russell (born September 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Chumlee, is an American ...

Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
Juneteenth Flag
Juneteenth

Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberati...

Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
Magdi Yacoub
Magdi Yacoub

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is an Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon. He is Professor of Cardiothora...

Saturday Nov 16, 1935 to Friday Nov 15, 1935
Prince Harry Image
Prince Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charl...

Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
Amancio Ortega Portrait

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder a...

Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. In that ro...

Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and music...

Saturday Mar 31, 1685 to Tuesday Jul 28, 1750
Gold Room Bretton Woods Participating Nations Display Case - Bretton Woods Conference

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who...

Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
Elon Musk
Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate, industrial designer, and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CT...

Monday Jun 28, 1971 to Present
Palace of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the s...

Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
John Forbes Nash Image

John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundament...

Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
Mug shot of Pearl Fernandez

Gabriel Fernandez (February 20, 2005 – May 24, 2013) was an eight-year-old American boy from Palmdal...

Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

Sooronbay Sharipovich Jeenbekov is a Kyrgyz politician, and the President of Kyrgyzstan. He official...

Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
Ebola virus (SEM)

Ebola virus disease (EVD), or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primate...

Jun, 1976 to Present
Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accola...

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
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Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festiv...

17th Century to Present
Cyprus flag

Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
Central Park May Image

The Central Park jogger case (When They See Us) was a criminal case in the United States based on th...

Wednesday Apr 19, 1989 to Monday May 1, 1989
Tony Blair Image
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister ...

Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
Rajputana 1909

The Rajputana famine of 1869 (also the Great Rajputana Famine, Bundelkhand and Upper Hindustan famin...

May, 1969 to 1970
AirPods
Airpods

AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple. They were first released on September 7, 2...

Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
Hittites
Hittites

The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom i...

1750 BC to 1180s BC
World War II
World War II

World War II (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), also known as Second World War, was a global war that ...

Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
XBOX logo 2012 Image
X-box

Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. It represents a series of video game co...

Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
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