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

1961 to 1989
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Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
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Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
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1950s to Present
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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
Cathedral of St. Helena
Stuart Long

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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
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Monday Feb 6, 1911 to Saturday Jun 5, 2004
Marvel Studios

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Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 to Present
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
Francesco Totti

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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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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
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
Donald Trump
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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1095 to 1291
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Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
Severo Ochoa
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
The Great Wall of China

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220s BC to Present
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Mar, 2009 to Present
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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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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
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Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
Jeff Bezos
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Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
Willem Einthoven

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Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

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Thursday Feb 24, 2022 to Present
George W. Bush

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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
Library of Alexandria

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280s BC to 642
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The Ottoman Empire was a state that controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northe...

1299 to Monday Mar 3, 1924
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Thursday Aug 26, 1999 to Sunday Apr 30, 2000
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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Monday Jun 11, 1962 to Present
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1940s to Present
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Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Joe Biden
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
Magdi Yacoub
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Saturday Nov 16, 1935 to Friday Nov 15, 1935
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Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
Ted Bundy
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Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
Jimmy Hoffa
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
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Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
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Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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15th Century BC to Present
Albert Einstein

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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence move...

Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
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Jul, 2012 to Present
Richard Nixon
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Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
German Empire

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Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
Ellie Goulding

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Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
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Robert Fulton

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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
Zara
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1975 to Present
Halimah Yacob
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Ho Chi Minh
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshel...

Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
Charles de Gaulle

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Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
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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
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1817 to Present
Ancient China
Ancient China

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21st Century BC to 221 BC
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Symbian OS

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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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
Chumlee
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
Itzak Stern
Itzak Stern

Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the le...

Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
Java

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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
Library
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2600 BC to Present
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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
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
Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise...

Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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
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Lucky Luciano

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania in November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an infl...

Wednesday Nov 24, 1897 to Friday Jan 26, 1962
United Nations

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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the...

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

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

Sunday Nov 16, 1958 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
League of Legends logo

League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by R...

Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimula...

1960 to Present
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
Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
Bosnian War

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina betwee...

Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
Armed soldiers stand guard in Sarawak

The Communist insurgency in Sarawak occurred in Malaysia from 1962 to 1990, and involved the North K...

Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
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Netflix

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

Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an A...

Thursday Mar 27, 1986 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
Black Friday
Black Friday

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

1952 to Present
Diving horse
Diving horse

A diving horse is an attraction that was popular in the mid-1880s, in which a horse would dive into ...

1881 to 1993
US Airways Flight 1549 (N106US) after crashing into the Hudson River Image

US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's ...

Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
Xanax
Xanax

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

1971 to Present
Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving

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

1536 to Present
Mehan Markle Image

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born on August 4th, 1981) is an American former actress and a member of t...

Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 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
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
Westminster Palace

The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords...

1016 to Present
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