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Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later Kin...

Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical opera...

Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
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Waghya

Waghya, (meaning tiger in Marathi), was a mixed-breed pet dog of Maratha king Shivaji Maharaj, known...

1670s to 1680
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Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a short-acting benzodiazepine. It is m...

1971 to Present
Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuati...

395 to 1453
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
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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
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman, politician, c...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
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Xiaomi

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded in April 2010 and headquartered in Beiji...

Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestand...

Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 to Present
Iranian Revolution Image

The Iranian Revolution also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution, was a series of ...

Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
Pope John Paul II Image

Karol Józef Wojtyła (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign o...

Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution, headquartered in Wa...

Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accola...

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing
Atomic Bomb

A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear b...

Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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
Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to ...

Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
First Sino-Japanese War Image

The First Sino-Japanese War, also known as the Chino-Japanese War, was fought between China and Japa...

Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
Ancient China
Ancient China

This is a timeline of Ancient Chinese dynasties, comprising important legal and territorial changes ...

21st Century BC to 221 BC
Patch Adams
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 40...

Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
Zara
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Zara SA, stylized as ZARA, is a Spanish apparel retailer based in Arteixo in Galicia. The company sp...

1975 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
Christine Lagarde

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician, businessperson, and lawyer serving as Pre...

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
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An actor, known for American Pickers, born October 11, 1965....

Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely consid...

Saturday Jun 17, 1882 to Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, musician, ...

Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
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Linux

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating...

Tuesday Sep 17, 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
Spiez Castle
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Spiez Castle is a castle in the municipality of Spiez of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is a Swiss her...

933 to Present
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights a...

1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
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Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., also known as Popeyes and formerly named Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits...

Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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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
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2...

Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
Martial arts
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Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as...

4th Millenium BC to Present
Justin Trudeau Image

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd an...

Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
Chris McCandless Image

Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
Hittites
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The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom i...

1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Edward VIII later Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick Davi...

Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
Nobel Prize
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Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
Amancio Ortega Portrait

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder a...

Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident were stu...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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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
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An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with ...

Friday Jan 1, 1802 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
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, con...

Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabet...

Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437 – 8 June 1492) was queen of England as the spouse of King Edward IV fro...

1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a lea...

Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American politician and soldier w...

Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
Q. Servilius Caepio

The Roman Republic was a state of the classical Roman civilization, run through public representatio...

509 BC to 27 BC
Bicycle
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A bicycle, also called a bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered, pedal-driven, single-tr...

1817 to Present
Juan Trippe
Juan Trippe

Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan A...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
Westminster Palace

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

1016 to Present
Michael Ballack

Michael Ballack is a retired German footballer. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of ...

Sunday Sep 26, 1976 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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Hachikō

Hachikō (November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935) was a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his remarkable l...

Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
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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Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked wor...

Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
Brexit
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide , also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government's systemati...

1914 to 1923
Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as...

Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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
Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to ...

Tuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921
Halimah Yacob
Halimah Yacob

Halimah binti Yacob is a Singaporean politician who is the current President of Singapore. Formerly ...

Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer ...

Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American political leader, military...

Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
Pablo Escobar Image

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
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
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
Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded...

Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
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
Prince Harry Image
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
Lucky Luciano Image
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
YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three f...

Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
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Uber

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American multinational ride-hailing company o...

Mar, 2009 to Present
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
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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of th...

32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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Meditation

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the ...

5th Millenium BC to Present
The Hillsborough Memorial

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during an association football match at Hillsborou...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
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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
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
Photograph taken showing the body of Will Brown after being burned by a white lynch mob - Red Summer
Red Summer

Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacis...

Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
KFC
KFC

KFC (short for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Lo...

1952 to Present
A three-dimensional printer - 3D printing
3D printing

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD...

1986 to Present
Malcolm X Image
Malcolm X

Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular fi...

Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
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
Kheops-Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid comple...

26th Century BC to Present
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
Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution

The Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911, was a revolut...

Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Viet...

Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
1970 Ancash earthquake

The 1970 Ancash earthquake (also known as the Great Peruvian earthquake) occurred on 31 May off the ...

Sunday May 31, 1970 to Sunday May 31, 1970
April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on April ...

Thursday Apr 1, 1582 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
Ebola virus (SEM)

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

Jun, 1976 to Present
Impeachment of Bill Clinton

The impeachment of Bill Clinton was initiated on October 8, 1998, when the United States House of Re...

Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
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The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time (02:04:07 UTC) on 25 December. With an e...

Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
Facebook Image

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Men...

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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