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Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
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Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
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1929 to 1933
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Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
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Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
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900 BC to 27 BC
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Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
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Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
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1536 to Present
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
Library of Alexandria

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280s BC to 642
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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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Sunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975
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Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
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Wednesday Apr 19, 1989 to Monday May 1, 1989
Cathedral of St. Helena
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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
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Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
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Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
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1095 to 1291
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305 BC to 30 BC
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Thursday Dec 1, 1949 to Thursday Dec 2, 1993
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Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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1941 to 1945
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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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Dec, 2019 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
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Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 to Present
Michael Jordan

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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
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Thursday Jun 20, 1946 to Present
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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1952 to Present
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19th Century BC to 539 BC
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Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
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Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
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32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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1908 to Present
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
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Monday Sep 1, 1958 to Present
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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
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1703 to Present
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
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Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
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4th Century to 469
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1st Century to Present
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Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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Friday Apr 23, 1858 to Saturday Oct 4, 1947
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Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
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Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
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Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
Mikhail Gorbachev Image

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The e...

Monday Mar 2, 1931 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
Eiffel Tower
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Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
Zorig Memorial in Ulan-Bator

The Mongolian Revolution of 1990 was a democratic peaceful revolution that started with demonstratio...

Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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Barack Obama

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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
Penicillin
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1928 to Present
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Inca Empire

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1438 to 1533
Marcus Garvey
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Wednesday Aug 17, 1887 to Monday Jun 10, 1940
Amancio Ortega Portrait

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Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
Bactria Map
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

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Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
Theodore Kaczynski
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Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
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Pope Francis

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Wednesday Dec 16, 1936 to Present
Angelina Jolie

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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
World War II
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
Billie Eilish
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
The World Bank
World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides interest-free loans and grant...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
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
Soviet-R-12-nuclear-ballistic missile

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Mis...

Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
Schindler, Oskar Image

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi...

Tuesday Apr 28, 1908 to Wednesday Oct 9, 1974
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Samsung

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It compr...

Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
Slovenian Territorial defense military drills held in March 1991 Image

The Ten-Day War, or the Slovenian Independence War, was a brief conflict that followed the Slovenian...

Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
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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Spanish Flu

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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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Brunei revolt

The Brunei revolt was a December 1962 insurrection in the British protectorate of Brunei by opponen...

Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
Putin Image

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence o...

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Destroyed Yugoslav Army T-55 tank. This tank was hit by a Croatian AT missile, abandoned by its crew and later destroyed by another JNA tank

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the gove...

Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
Narendra Damodardas Modi Image

Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and cu...

Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
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Atari, Inc.

Atari is a brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Inte...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 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
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
Sojourner Truth

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

1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran - 1727 Tabriz earthquake

The 1727 Tabriz earthquake occurred on 18 November with an epicenter near Tabriz in northwest Iran....

Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)...

Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer, so...

Thursday Sep 5, 1946 to Sunday Nov 24, 1991
Chernobylreactor

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

Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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