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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
Java

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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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Ciro Immobile

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Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
Freddie Mercury

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Thursday Sep 5, 1946 to Sunday Nov 24, 1991
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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
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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
Penicillin
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1928 to Present
Sherry Dyson
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1950s to Present
Cover, first serial edition of 1849 - David Copperfield

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1850 to Present
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami

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Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
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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
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
Chocolate
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15th Century BC to Present
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Monday Mar 21, 1955 to Present
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
Carter G. Woodson

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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
Donald Trump
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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2001 to Present
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

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Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
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1268 to 1268
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Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
Joseph Goebbels

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Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
Anna May Wong
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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
Byzantine Empire

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395 to 1453
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
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Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

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1929 to 1933
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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
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
Muhammad Ali Pasha

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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
Amancio Ortega Portrait

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Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
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1865 to Present
Yasunari Kawabata

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Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
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Tuesday Apr 19, 1910 to Present
Gustav Stresemann

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Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
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Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Cristiano Ronaldo

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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
Nancy Pelosi
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Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
Resignation of the non-Communist ministers in February 1948

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Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
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The Iran–Iraq War began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and ended on 20 August 1988, w...

Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
Warren Buffett

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Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
Q. Servilius Caepio

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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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1250 to 1517
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1881 to 1993
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Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
 Dahomey Amazons

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1645 to Nov, 1979
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Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

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Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
Joe Biden
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
German Empire

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Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
Frederick Douglass

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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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Gulf War

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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
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Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
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Barack Obama

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Friday Aug 4, 1961 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
Library
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2600 BC to Present
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Bin Laden

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Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
Romulus and his twin brother Remus
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750s BC to 509 BC
Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit

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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
Flames engulf a building following the outbreak of hostilities between the Panamanian Defense Force and U.S. forces during Operation Just Cause

The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause occurred between mid-December 1...

Wednesday Dec 20, 1989 to Wednesday Jan 31, 1990
A Colombian marine on a field training exercise

The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
The official opening of the League of Nations.

The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission...

Saturday Jan 10, 1920 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
Intel microprocessor

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Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
Mass shootings in the United States

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence. The precise inc...

Tuesday Sep 6, 1949 to Present
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Internet

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1950s to Present
Collage of Images From The Vietnam War
Vietnam War

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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
Lula da Silva Image
Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian pol...

Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
Sepp Blatter Image
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
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Laser

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1960 to Present
Library of Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant li...

280s BC to 642
Bart Millard
Bart Millard

Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known...

Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
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OnePlus

One Plus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., commonly referred to as OnePlus, is a Chinese smartphone m...

Monday Dec 16, 2013 to Present
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfg...

Tuesday Jan 27, 1756 to Wednesday May 11, 1791
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
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Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, (born 23 October 1940), known as Pelé, is a Brazilian retired professio...

Wednesday Oct 23, 1940 to Present
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Microsoft

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

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
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Adidas

Adidas AG is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that...

Thursday Aug 18, 1949 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
Black Friday

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

1952 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
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart

Kevin Darnell Hart is an American stand-up comedian and actor....

Friday Jul 6, 1979 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
Theresa May
Theresa May

Theresa Mary May MP (born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the U...

Sunday Sep 30, 1956 to Present
Oculus Rift

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from t...

1838 to Present
Russell Bufalino

Rosario Alberto Bufalino (born October 29, 1903) was an Italian-born American mobster who became the...

Thursday Oct 29, 1903 to Friday Feb 25, 1994
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