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

799 to 1806
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The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resi...

Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
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Nuclear Power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which mo...

1943 to Present
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Scythian

The Scythians Saka, Sakae, Iskuzai, or Askuzai, were an ancient nomadic people of Eurasia, inhabitin...

1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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The Weimar Republic, officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1...

1919 to 1933
Ellie Goulding

Elena Jane Goulding (30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. Her career began when sh...

Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 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
MOTHER'S DAY
Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bon...

Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
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Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist...

Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart

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

Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until ...

Wednesday Jul 28, 1954 to Tuesday Mar 5, 2013
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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
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
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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
Library of Alexandria

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

280s BC to 642
Hittites
Hittites

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

1750 BC to 1180s BC
Mohamed Aly Image

born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr(January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, ...

Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
World War II
World War II

World War II (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), also known as Second World War, was a global war that ...

Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Mobile Phones

While the transmission of speech by radio has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, ...

Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Kaka
Kaká

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

Monday Jun 4, 1883 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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Spanish Flu

The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. La...

Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Image

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years. He was the fou...

Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name, The Rock, is an American-Can...

Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, ...

Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Tuesday Aug 27, 1963
Black Friday
Black Friday

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

1952 to Present
Willis Carrier Image

Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known f...

Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
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Mamie Till

Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till...

Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
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Jackie Chan

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

Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)

Major events in the Early sub-period include the Qin unification of China and their replacement by t...

221 BC to 220
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami

The 1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the S...

Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
Gary Ridgway
Gary Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initia...

Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
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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
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
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Beethoven

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

Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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
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Joseph Stalin

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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registere...

Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
(1905 Russian Revolution) A train overturned by striking workers at the main railway depot in Tiflis

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through va...

Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Repub...

Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho

Brazilian former professional footballer and ambassador for Barcelona. He played mostly as an attack...

Friday Mar 21, 1980 to Present
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
Heysel plan

The Heysel Stadium Events occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach b...

Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
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Kosovo War

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started in late February 1998 and lasted until 1...

Sunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Unit...

Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) is a retired professional American basketball p...

Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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
Depiction of the earthquake in an engraving from 1696, possibly showing Catania - 1693 Sicily earthquake

The 1693 Sicily earthquake struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, Calabria, and Malta on Januar...

Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Huawei

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

Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
Albrecht Kossel

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of gene...

Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
Brexit
Brexit

Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit") is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the...

Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
Library
Libraries

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
Alan Turing
Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philo...

Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
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Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festiv...

17th Century to Present
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BMW

BMW is a German multinational company which produces automobiles and motorcycles. The company was fo...

Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial ...

Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
Resignation of the non-Communist ministers in February 1948

The 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état was an event late that February in which the Communist Party of Cz...

Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
Magdi Yacoub
Magdi Yacoub

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is an Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon. He is Professor of Cardiothora...

Saturday Nov 16, 1935 to Friday Nov 15, 1935
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Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consume...

Friday May 12, 1865 to Thursday May 11, 1865
Chris Gardner and his Son

Christopher Jarrett Medina Gardner was born to Chris Gardner and Jackie Medina, on 28 January 1981. ...

Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named ...

Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, ...

Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
Prime minister David Ben-Gurion Image

David Ben-Gurion (16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State o...

Saturday Oct 16, 1886 to Saturday Dec 1, 1973
Marc O'leary

Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated b...

Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who develope...

Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
Robin Williams 1996 Image

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
Ebola virus (SEM)

Ebola virus disease (EVD), or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primate...

Jun, 1976 to Present
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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. With a car...

Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
Chocolate
Chocolate

Chocolate is a preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds that are made in the form of a liquid, ...

15th Century BC to Present
Stan Lee
Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic bo...

Thursday Dec 28, 1922 to Monday Nov 12, 2018
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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and so...

Wednesday Dec 16, 1936 to Present
Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanth...

Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
Sherry Dyson
Sherry Dyson

Sherry Dyson is Mathematical expert. She was known because of his husband Chris Gardner. Chris is a ...

1950s to Present
Assyrian Empire
Assyria

Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near ...

2500 BC to 609 BC
Slovenian Territorial defense military drills held in March 1991 Image

The Ten-Day War, or the Slovenian Independence War, was a brief conflict that followed the Slovenian...

Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk

Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder,...

Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

is a French billionaire heiress and an author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish-Christian re...

Friday Jul 10, 1953 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
Indira Gandhi Image
Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian...

Monday Nov 19, 1917 to Wednesday Oct 31, 1984
Titanic
Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after the sh...

Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
1935 Quetta earthquake

The 1935 Quetta earthquake occurred on 31 May between 2:33 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, Br...

Friday May 31, 1935 to Friday May 31, 1935
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Adidas

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

Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitat...

Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
Popeyes restaurant in Houston, Texas
Popeyes

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., also known as Popeyes and formerly named Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits...

Monday Jun 12, 1972 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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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The line-up of John Lennon, Paul ...

Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Prince Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charl...

Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
Sky Petroleum advertisement, Garage and Motor Agent magazine, 7 July 1973

The 1973 oil crisis or first oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization o...

1973 to 1979
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
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
Martial arts
Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as...

4th Millenium BC to Present
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
Java

Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to...

Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
 Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

1645 to Nov, 1979
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (14/15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), known as Leonardo da Vinci, was an I...

Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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Internet

The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts to interconnect computer networks that aro...

1950s to Present
Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge visits Sweden 02 Image

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (William Arthur Philip Louis born 21 June 1982) is a member of the...

Monday Jun 21, 1982 to Present
Theodelinda married Agilulf

The Kingdom of the Lombards also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of Italy, was an ea...

568 to 774
AirPods
Airpods

AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple. They were first released on September 7, 2...

Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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MacOS

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

1985 to 2019
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