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Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
Carter G. Woodson

Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Associat...

Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
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
Elliot Page
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Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

Sooronbay Sharipovich Jeenbekov is a Kyrgyz politician, and the President of Kyrgyzstan. He official...

Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
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Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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1961 to 1989
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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Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
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14th Century to Present
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1500s to 1517
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR...

Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
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Frank Fritz

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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
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1745 to Present
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Cinnabon

Cinnabon is an American chain of baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in areas with high pe...

Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
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750s BC to 509 BC
Emmanuel Macron Image

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician serving as Presi...

Wednesday Dec 21, 1977 to Present
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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The Holocaust

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1941 to 1945
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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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 Apr 19, 1910 to Present
Temple of Hephaestus - Athens, Greece - Ancient Greece

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9th Century BC to 146 BC
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
Itzak Stern
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Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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
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1973 to 1979
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch physician and physiologist. He invent...

Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
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Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the...

Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Francesco Totti

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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
Johan Cruyff
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Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
Simon Bolivar

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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
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Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan terro...

Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
Bitcoin
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Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
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2500 BC to 609 BC
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1971 to Present
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Kobe Bryant

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Wednesday Aug 23, 1978 to Sunday Jan 26, 2020
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Thursday Apr 24, 1800 to Present
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Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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Ciro Immobile

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Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
Chocolate
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Chocolate is a preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds that are made in the form of a liquid, ...

15th Century BC to Present
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US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's ...

Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
Anna May Wong
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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
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Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
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Monday Nov 19, 1917 to Wednesday Oct 31, 1984
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
Elon Musk
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Monday Jun 28, 1971 to Present
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

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1865 to Present
Chris Kyle Image

Christopher Scott Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL sniper. He served four tours in the Iraq War an...

Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
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
Korean War Image
Korean War

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of Chin...

Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

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1789 to 1848
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the le...

Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
Hot Dog
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The hot dog (also spelled hotdog) is a grilled or steamed sausage sandwich where the sausage is serv...

1200 to Present
Cristiano Ronaldo

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

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the Fren...

Tuesday Aug 15, 1769 to Saturday May 5, 1821
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
German Empire

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Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
Martin Bormann

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Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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
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The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

1645 to Nov, 1979
Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author....

Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Bay of Pigs Invasion Image

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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Lacoste

Lacoste is a French company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste and André Gillier. It sel...

Sunday Jan 1, 1933 to Present
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Android

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Oct, 2003 to Present
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Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, som...

1536 to Present
Kingdom of Pergamon

The Attalid dynasty or the Kingdom of Pergamon ​was a Hellenistic Greek dynasty that ruled much of A...

282 BC to 133 BC
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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
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
Josip Broz Tito Image

Josip Broz (7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary...

Saturday May 7, 1892 to Sunday May 4, 1980
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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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American technology and media services provider and production company headquart...

Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
Facebook Image

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

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 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
Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a mass slaughter of Tutsi an...

Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
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
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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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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
Plane Crashes Images

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

Thursday Sep 17, 1908 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
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
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
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Microsoft

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

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
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
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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
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