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Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 to Present
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Saturday Nov 16, 1935 to Friday Nov 15, 1935
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
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1929 to 1933
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Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
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Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
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17th Century to Present
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Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
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1971 to Present
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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
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1095 to 1291
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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1960 to Present
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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
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1883 to Present
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Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
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Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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1986 to Present
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5th Century to 15th Century
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Tuesday May 7, 1946 to Present
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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1952 to Present
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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509 BC to 27 BC
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Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
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Monday Dec 16, 2013 to Present
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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
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Tuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
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Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
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Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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1930s to Monday Jan 12, 1942
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
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Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
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Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
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2500 BC to 609 BC
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Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
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4th Century to 469
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Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
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312 BC to 63 BC
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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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1881 to 1993
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
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Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
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Saturday Dec 29, 1984 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
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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
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Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
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Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
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Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
Banner of the Holy Roman Empire

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799 to 1806
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
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Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
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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
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American film actor and politician who...

Monday Feb 6, 1911 to Saturday Jun 5, 2004
New York Stock Exchange

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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
River Phoenix
River Phoenix

Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty P...

Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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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
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

Ibrahim Pasha was a general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and un...

1789 to 1848
Margaret Thatcher Image

Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...

Tuesday Oct 13, 1925 to Monday Apr 8, 2013
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
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Sepp Blatter

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (Fr...

Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
Elliot Page
Elliot Page

Elliot Page (born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page; February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. H...

Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
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Sofia Kenin

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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Amazon

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

Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 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
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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
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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
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
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MacOS

MacOS is a series of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. si...

1985 to 2019
Martin Luther King Image

Was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in...

Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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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
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was initiated on February 24, 1868, when the United States House o...

Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Monday Feb 24, 1868
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Image

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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