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German Empire

The unification of Germany into the German Empire, a Prussian-dominated nation state with federal fe...

Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernme...

Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, ...

Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
Black Friday
Black Friday

Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, whi...

1952 to Present
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person t...

Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
Korean War Image
Korean War

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of Chin...

Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ, is an American form...

Saturday Feb 16, 1963 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
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
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
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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
Bactria Map
Bactria

Bactria was an ancient region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain r...

26th Century BC to 10th Century
Greenland

The Denmark expedition, also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, was an ...

Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1

The unification of Italy was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the con...

1815 to 1871
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
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
Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Ernst Stresemann (10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as Chancell...

Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
Stephen Hawking Image

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmo...

Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Ciro Immobile Image
Ciro Immobile

Ciro Immobile is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Lazio an...

Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
Max Planck
Max Planck

Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta wo...

Friday Apr 23, 1858 to Saturday Oct 4, 1947
1997 Asian financial crisis

The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia and South...

Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
Hurricane Katrina Image

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on...

Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter. ...

Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between ...

1941 to 1945
Banking hacks image

Bank fraud is the criminal act of breaching the security measures of a financial institution to stea...

Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
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
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish an...

Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution, headquartered in Wa...

Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
Logo for American sportswear company Nike Inc.
Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manu...

Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
Fidel Castro Image
Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Repub...

Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
Scythian comb
Scythian

The Scythians Saka, Sakae, Iskuzai, or Askuzai, were an ancient nomadic people of Eurasia, inhabitin...

1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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Mother Teresa

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), commonly known as Mother Teresa and honour...

Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
Intel microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing uni...

Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
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IKEA

IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, ki...

Wednesday Jul 28, 1943 to Present
Symbian OS logo Image
Symbian OS

Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphon...

1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

The Ptolemaic Kingdom was an Ancient Greek state based in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period. It wa...

305 BC to 30 BC
Hungarian flag with the 1949–1956 communist emblem cut out

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the...

Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Stan Lee
Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic bo...

Thursday Dec 28, 1922 to Monday Nov 12, 2018
Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) is a retired professional American basketball p...

Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
Louis Armstrong Image

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an A...

Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
Chris Gardner Sep 2011

Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker...

Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked wor...

Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestand...

Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 to Present
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Memorial day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring the military per...

Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the Unit...

1703 to Present
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
The official opening of the League of Nations.

The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission...

Saturday Jan 10, 1920 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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
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
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Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young...

Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
Halimah Yacob
Halimah Yacob

Halimah binti Yacob is a Singaporean politician who is the current President of Singapore. Formerly ...

Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Collage of Images From The Vietnam War
Vietnam War

The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Again...

Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2...

Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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
IOS Logo Image
iOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusivel...

2005 to Present
Eminem
Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem, is an American r...

Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 to Present
Fulton Image
Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is w...

Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
King Edward VIII
Edward VIII

Edward VIII later Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick Davi...

Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
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Adidas

Adidas AG is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that...

Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
Bill Gates Image
Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, p...

Friday Oct 28, 1955 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
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named ...

Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
Nicaraguan Revolution

The Nicaraguan Revolution encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s ...

Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
Logo of Amazon
Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington. Amaz...

Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
Franklin Roosevelt Image

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR...

Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur convicted of criminal fraud. ...

Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
Heysel plan

The Heysel Stadium Events occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach b...

Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
Mobile Nokia 1011
Mobile Phones

While the transmission of speech by radio has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, ...

Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Marc O'leary

Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated b...

Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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
Rosa Parks Image
Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her ...

Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
PlayStation logo
PlayStation

PlayStation (officially abbreviated as PS) is a video game brand that consists of four home video ga...

Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
Netflix 2014 logo
Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American technology and media services provider and production company headquart...

Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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
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
Lothar Meyer
Lothar Meyer

Julius Lothar Meyer (19 August 1830 – 11 April 1895) was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneer...

Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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
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Meditation

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the ...

5th Millenium BC to Present
AirPods
Airpods

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

Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
Justinianus I
Justinian I

Justinian I also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565....

482 to Thursday Nov 14, 565
Rescue equipment in Tham Luang entrance chamber

In June and July 2018, a junior association football team was rescued from the Tham Luang Nang Non c...

Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
Slobodan Milošević Image

Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the President of Serbia (ori...

Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho

Brazilian former professional footballer and ambassador for Barcelona. He played mostly as an attack...

Friday Mar 21, 1980 to Present
1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake

The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on June 21 at 00:30:14 local time in northern Iran. The s...

Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s to Present
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
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is cons...

1500s to 1517
Chris Kyle Image

Christopher Scott Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL sniper. He served four tours in the Iraq War an...

Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
Martin Bormann

Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He ga...

Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti (born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional footballer who played for...

Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
Visa Inc. logo
Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services cor...

Monday Sep 1, 1958 to Present
Microsoft Corporation current (2019) logo
Microsoft

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

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
Mendeleev

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating...

Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
Cinnabon logo Image
Cinnabon

Cinnabon is an American chain of baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in areas with high pe...

Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi

Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both FC Barcelona and the Arge...

Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
H1N1 navbox Image
Spanish Flu

The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. La...

Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
Incandescent light bulb with a medium-sized E27 (Edison 27 millimeter) male screw base - image

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with ...

Friday Jan 1, 1802 to Present
(1905 Russian Revolution) A train overturned by striking workers at the main railway depot in Tiflis

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through va...

Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
Oculus Rift

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

1838 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
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