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1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
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Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Ernst Stresemann (10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as Chancell...

Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
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
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Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
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Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
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Monday Mar 21, 1955 to Present
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Pope Francis

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Wednesday Dec 16, 1936 to Present
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Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran - 1727 Tabriz earthquake

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Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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Friday Mar 21, 1980 to Present
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Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
Dollar Tree
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1986 to Present
A jack-o'-lantern, one of the symbols of Halloween
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Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhallo...

1745 to Present
Celine Dion
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
George Washington

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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
The Second Boer War

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Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

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1865 to Present
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image

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Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
Intel microprocessor

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Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
Marco van Basten

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Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
A laser beam used for welding
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1960 to Present
Library of Alexandria

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280s BC to 642
Nobel Prize
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Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
Elizabeth Holmes

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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
Marie Curie
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Thursday Nov 7, 1867 to Wednesday Jul 4, 1934
Battle during the Second Crusade
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1095 to 1291
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Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
Chocolate
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15th Century BC to Present
Ancient China
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21st Century BC to 221 BC
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Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
Abraham Lincoln

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Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
Impeachment of Bill Clinton

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Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
Severo Ochoa
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
The official opening of the League of Nations.

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Saturday Jan 10, 1920 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
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Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
Mona Lisa
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1500s to 1517
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Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Iran-Iraq War Image

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Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
Central Park May Image

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Wednesday Apr 19, 1989 to Monday May 1, 1989
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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
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Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
Cathedral of St. Helena
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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
Resignation of the non-Communist ministers in February 1948

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Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
Kingdom of Pergamon

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282 BC to 133 BC
Diving horse
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1881 to 1993
River Phoenix
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
Cleopatra and Caesar
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69 BC to Saturday Aug 10, 30 BC
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Dec, 2019 to Present
1997 Asian financial crisis

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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
Halimah Yacob
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
George W. Bush

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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
Lady Gaga
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Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
Red Dog statue

Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) was a kelpie/cattle dog cross that was well known for his trave...

1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
Elizabeth Woodville

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1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
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Gulf War

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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
Byzantine Empire

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395 to 1453
Hachiko Image
Hachikō

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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
The logo of the Finnish telecommunications company, Nokia Corporation
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Friday May 12, 1865 to Thursday May 11, 1865
Temple of Hephaestus - Athens, Greece - Ancient Greece

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9th Century BC to 146 BC
Bactria Map
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
Ebola virus (SEM)

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Jun, 1976 to Present
Cover, first serial edition of 1849 - David Copperfield

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1850 to Present
Bart Millard
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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
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Internet

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1950s to Present
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
Osama bin Laden Image
Bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), also rendered Usama bin Ladin,...

Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
Pablo Picasso image
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and...

Monday Jun 10, 2019 to Sunday Apr 8, 1973
J.F.Kennedy Image

Often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president o...

Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
Flag of the United States

The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American Flag or U.S. flag, is th...

Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
Huawei logo - image
Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommuni...

Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
Xanax
Xanax

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

1971 to Present
Virus Microscope Infection

SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir....

Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
Q. Servilius Caepio

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509 BC to 27 BC
Rosa Parks Image
Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her ...

Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
Samuel Little

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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong also known by his courtesy name Mao Runzhi and the title Chairman Mao as Chairman of th...

Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
Westminster Palace

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

1016 to Present
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter. ...

Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
Angela Merkel Image
Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She serve...

Saturday Jul 17, 1954 to Present
The logo for Zoom Video Communications

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (stylized as zoom or simply Zoom) is an American communications tech...

Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
Joe Biden
Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th ...

Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
Fulton Image
Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is w...

Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
Flag of Christmas Island

The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the s...

Thursday Jan 1, 1615 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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