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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, m...

Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
Yersinia pestis
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14th Century to Present
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Meditation

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5th Millenium BC to Present
Kaka
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Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

Thursday Apr 22, 1982 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
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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
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
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
Mug shot of Pearl Fernandez

Gabriel Fernandez (February 20, 2005 – May 24, 2013) was an eight-year-old American boy from Palmdal...

Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
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
Schindler, Oskar Image

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi...

Tuesday Apr 28, 1908 to Wednesday Oct 9, 1974
A jack-o'-lantern, one of the symbols of Halloween
Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhallo...

1745 to Present
Greenland

The Denmark expedition, also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, was an ...

Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
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
Qasem Soleimani

Qasem Soleimani (11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian Major General in the Islamic Revolut...

Monday Mar 11, 1957 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
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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
Marie Curie
Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pione...

Thursday Nov 7, 1867 to Wednesday Jul 4, 1934
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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
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

Jamal Ja'far Muhammad Ali Al Ibrahim (1 July 1954 – 3 January 2020), known by the kunya Abu Mahdi al...

Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
Asia Minor map

The Cilicia earthquake occurred northeast of the city of Adana in 1268. Over 60,000 people perished ...

1268 to 1268
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-C...

1438 to 1533
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Ru...

Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
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
Magdi Yacoub
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Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is an Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon. He is Professor of Cardiothora...

Saturday Nov 16, 1935 to Friday Nov 15, 1935
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
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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, t...

Thursday Apr 1, 1976 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
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
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
Coverture
Coverture

Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's lega...

13th Century to 1966
Zinedine Zidane - image

Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French former professional footba...

Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
Akio Morita
Akio Morita

Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka....

Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
George Washington

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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
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
Statue of Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby (May 4, 1855 – January 14, 1872) was a Skye Terrier who became known in 19th-centur...

Friday May 4, 1855 to Sunday Jan 14, 1872
Angelina Jolie

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

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and...

Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
Armed soldiers stand guard in Sarawak

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
Battle during the Second Crusade
Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Lat...

1095 to 1291
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
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for i...

2000s BC to 1697
Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle, lasting roughly from 1910 to 1920, that transform...

Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
Soviet-R-12-nuclear-ballistic missile

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
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
Kremlin, Russia Image

The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on 26 December 1991, officially granting self-governing...

Sunday Mar 10, 1985 to Thursday Dec 26, 1991
Nicaraguan Revolution

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Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
Gita Gopinath
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
Billie Eilish
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
Christine Lagarde

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

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
Etruscan mother and child

The Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly w...

900 BC to 27 BC
Albrecht Kossel

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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
Marilyn Monroe Image

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshel...

Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
Atlantic Charter

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Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
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
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
Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the...

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 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
Princess Diana Image

Was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and th...

Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
Shakira Image
Shakira

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

Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur convicted of criminal fraud. ...

Friday Mar 2, 1984 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
Bob Marley Image
Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the pioneers o...

Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
Alfred Nobel Image
Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engin...

Monday Oct 21, 1833 to Thursday Dec 10, 1896
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
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
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
Reddit
Reddit

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

Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
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
Mussolini biografia

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the Na...

Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
XBOX logo 2012 Image
X-box

Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. It represents a series of video game co...

Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
Algerian War Image
Algerian War

The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or the Algerian Revolution was foug...

Monday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a c...

1865 to Present
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
First Chechen War (A Chechen fighter stands near the government palace building during a short lull in fighting in Grozny, Chechnya) Image

The First Chechen War, also known as the First Chechen Сampaign, First Russian-Chechen war, or offic...

Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
Statue of Waghya at Raigad Fort
Waghya

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

1670s to 1680
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
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk

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

Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
Giannis Antetokounmpo

Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee ...

Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
Simon Bolivar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco (24 July 1783 ...

Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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
Plane Crashes Images

The air planes accidents happened in the twentieth century....

Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and philanthropist who served...

Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
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
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person t...

Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
Lothar Meyer
Lothar Meyer

Julius Lothar Meyer (19 August 1830 – 11 April 1895) was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneer...

Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s to Present
Valentine greeting card

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated an...

494 to Present
Graves at Arlington on Memorial Day Image
Memorial day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring the military per...

Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Staphylococcus aureus - Antibiotics Test plate
Antibiotic

An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria and is the most important...

Tuesday Apr 19, 1910 to Present
Harald V Image
Harald V

Harald V is the King of Norway, having ascended to the throne upon the death of his father King Olav...

Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

On 24 February 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine, in a major escalation of the Russo...

Thursday Feb 24, 2022 to Present
Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, som...

1536 to Present
Brazilian Revolution of 1930

The Revolution of 1930 also known as the 1930 coup d'état or coup of 1930 was an armed movement in B...

Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
Uber logo
Uber

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

Mar, 2009 to Present
Andrew Yang Image
Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, entrepren...

Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
Mark Zuckerburg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist...

Monday May 14, 1984 to Present
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