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Penicillin
Penicillin

Penicillin (PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics, derived originally from common moulds known as Pe...

1928 to Present
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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pionee...

Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Image

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years. He was the fou...

Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular an...

Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
1970 Ancash earthquake

The 1970 Ancash earthquake (also known as the Great Peruvian earthquake) occurred on 31 May off the ...

Sunday May 31, 1970 to Sunday May 31, 1970
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey

H.E. The Right Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican po...

Wednesday Aug 17, 1887 to Monday Jun 10, 1940
Christine Lagarde

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician, businessperson, and lawyer serving as Pre...

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 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
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BMW

BMW is a German multinational company which produces automobiles and motorcycles. The company was fo...

Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
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Frank Fritz

An actor, known for American Pickers, born October 11, 1965....

Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
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Harald V

Harald V is the King of Norway, having ascended to the throne upon the death of his father King Olav...

Sunday Feb 21, 1937 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
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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
Chernobylreactor

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of Pripyat...

Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
Etruscan mother and child

The Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly w...

900 BC to 27 BC
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
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
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1

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

1815 to 1871
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Microsoft

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

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
Bernard Arnault

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born March 5, 1949) is a French billionaire business magnate, and art ...

Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
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 during the Second Crusade
Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Lat...

1095 to 1291
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
1783 Calabrian earthquakes

The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Cal...

Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until ...

Wednesday Jul 28, 1954 to Tuesday Mar 5, 2013
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
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident were stu...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
Robin Williams 1996 Image

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Born i...

Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kin...

Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
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
Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, som...

1536 to Present
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
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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
IOS Logo Image
iOS

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

2005 to Present
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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical opera...

Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
Atlantic Charter

The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goal...

Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
Ayman al-Zawahri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is the current leader of al-Qaeda and a current or former member an...

Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
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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
Pablo Escobar Image

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (1 December 1949 – 2 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narco...

Thursday Dec 1, 1949 to Thursday Dec 2, 1993
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
Muhammad Ali Pasha

Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan was the Alb...

Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
Richard Jewell

Richard Allensworth Jewell (born December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard...

Monday Dec 17, 1962 to Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
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
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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian...

Monday Nov 19, 1917 to Wednesday Oct 31, 1984
Celine Dion
Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled voc...

Saturday Mar 30, 1968 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
Alcatraz Island March 1962 Image

The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-secur...

Monday Jun 11, 1962 to Present
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitat...

Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and philanthropist who served...

Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
Chris McCandless Image

Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to ...

Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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Arameans

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

1110s BC to 730s BC
Garry Kasparov Image

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion,...

Saturday Apr 13, 1963 to Present
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Mamluks

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

1250 to 1517
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USA civil war

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confede...

Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s 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
Black Friday
Black Friday

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

1952 to Present
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Kroger

The Kroger Company, is an American retail company founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, O...

1883 to Present
KFC
KFC

KFC (short for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Lo...

1952 to Present
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Uber

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American multinational ride-hailing company o...

Mar, 2009 to Present
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served...

Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
Map of conflict zones in Myanmar (Burma) - image

The Conflict in Myanmar is a series of primarily ethnic conflicts within Myanmar that began shortly ...

Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
Xanax
Xanax

Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a short-acting benzodiazepine. It is m...

1971 to Present
Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in Western Asia, during the Hellenistic Period, that existed f...

312 BC to 63 BC
W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, ...

Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Tuesday Aug 27, 1963
Patch Adams
Patch Adams

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

Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Angelina Jolie

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

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Hong Kong independence flag

Hong Kong independence is a movement that advocates Hong Kong becoming an independent sovereign stat...

Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
Daniel Craig - Film Premiere "Spectre" - James Bond
James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer ...

1953 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
Second Sino-Japanese War (Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937) Image

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China ...

Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
3D medical animation corona virus Image

Corona-viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus...

Dec, 2019 to Present
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
Vasily Zaitsev Image

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the...

Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
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
Theodore Kaczynski
Ted Kaczynski

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former m...

Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
Kremlin, Russia Image

The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on 26 December 1991, officially granting self-governing...

Sunday Mar 10, 1985 to Thursday Dec 26, 1991
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
Jair Bolsonaro Image

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

Monday Mar 21, 1955 to Present
Steven Spielberg image

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of th...

Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
Virus Microscope Infection

SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir....

Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
Zlatan Ibrahimović - image

Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for LA Galaxy. Primar...

Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
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
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
Marvel Studios

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film studio ...

Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 to Present
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on April ...

Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
The logo for Zoom Video Communications

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (stylized as zoom or simply Zoom) is an American communications tech...

Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
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
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
disasters

A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage or ...

Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
Caracas (Venezuela), March 5, 2014. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, participated in the commemoration of the death of Commander Hugo Chávez Image

The Bolivarian Revolution is a political process in Venezuela that was led by Venezuelan President H...

Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
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
Eminem
Eminem

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

Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 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
Elizabeth Holmes

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

Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
Facebook Image

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

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
Emmanuel Macron Image

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician serving as Presi...

Wednesday Dec 21, 1977 to Present
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