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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
Stan Lee
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Thursday Dec 28, 1922 to Monday Nov 12, 2018
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

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Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
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Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
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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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Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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Wednesday Dec 21, 1977 to Present
Diego Maradona

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Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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Sunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999
Westminster Palace

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1016 to Present
Anna May Wong
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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
Severo Ochoa
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
George W. Bush

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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
Xanana Gusmão - image

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, is an East Timorese politician. A former militant, he was the first Presiden...

Thursday Jun 20, 1946 to Present
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Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
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Meditation

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5th Millenium BC to Present
Simon Bolivar

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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
Igor Stravinsky

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Saturday Jun 17, 1882 to Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
Flag of the United States

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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
Iran-Iraq War Image

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Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
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
Gary Ridgway
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Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Saturday Mar 31, 1685 to Tuesday Jul 28, 1750
Temple of Hephaestus - Athens, Greece - Ancient Greece

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9th Century BC to 146 BC
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Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
LeBron James
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Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
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Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Anyanya Flag

The First Sudanese Civil War (also known as the Anyanya Rebellion or Anyanya I, after the name of th...

Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami

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Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
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Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
Statue of Greyfriars Bobby

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Friday May 4, 1855 to Sunday Jan 14, 1872
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1536 to Present
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Internet

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1950s to Present
Nikola Tesla
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Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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1986 to Present
Heinrich Himmler

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Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
The World Bank
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
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Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
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1986 to Present
Gita Gopinath
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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1953 to Present
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
Ellie Goulding

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Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
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Tuesday Jul 1, 2003 to Present
Elon Musk
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Monday Jun 28, 1971 to Present
Michael Jordan

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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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1883 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
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
Shaquille O'Neal

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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1

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1815 to 1871
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Xiaomi

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

Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period....

5th Century to 15th Century
Black Friday
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Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, whi...

1952 to Present
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Chan Kong-sang born 7 April 1954 known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kongese martial arti...

Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
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The Kingdom of the Lombards also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of Italy, was an ea...

568 to 774
Pelé Image
Pelé

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Wednesday Oct 23, 1940 to Present
First Sino-Japanese War Image

The First Sino-Japanese War, also known as the Chino-Japanese War, was fought between China and Japa...

Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
Seleucid Empire

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

312 BC to 63 BC
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
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
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Monday Feb 24, 1868
Chernobylreactor

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

Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
Banner of the Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe that d...

799 to 1806
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
Hittites
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The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom i...

1750 BC to 1180s BC
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
Berlin Wall Image
Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from...

1961 to 1989
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Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated an...

494 to Present
Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and politician...

Sunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975
First Chechen War (A Chechen fighter stands near the government palace building during a short lull in fighting in Grozny, Chechnya) Image

The First Chechen War, also known as the First Chechen Сampaign, First Russian-Chechen war, or offic...

Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
Mohamed Salah
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Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Eg...

Monday Jun 15, 1992 to Present
Certosa di Pavia
Huns

The Huns were nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the...

4th Century to 469
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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
Beethoven Image
Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. ...

Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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
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
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
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
Hot Dog
Hot Dog

The hot dog (also spelled hotdog) is a grilled or steamed sausage sandwich where the sausage is serv...

1200 to Present
Greenland

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

Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
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Microsoft

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

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
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
Bitcoin
Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name ...

Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
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