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1670s to 1680
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Berlin Wall

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1961 to 1989
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1986 to Present
George Washington

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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
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Lucky Luciano

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Wednesday Nov 24, 1897 to Friday Jan 26, 1962
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Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
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Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French former professional footba...

Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
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Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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Tuesday Aug 15, 1769 to Saturday May 5, 1821
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Saturday Nov 5, 1988 to Present
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Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, is an East Timorese politician. A former militant, he was the first Presiden...

Thursday Jun 20, 1946 to Present
Vladimir Lenin

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Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
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Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 16, 1903 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
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The Beatles

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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
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Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
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Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
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1110s BC to 730s BC
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Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
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Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
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Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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312 BC to 63 BC
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1789 to 1848
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1990 to 1998
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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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Oct, 2003 to Present
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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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Thursday Apr 24, 1800 to Present
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Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
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Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
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509 BC to 27 BC
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Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
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1st Century to Present
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900 BC to 27 BC
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Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Saturday Mar 31, 1685 to Tuesday Jul 28, 1750
Java

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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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9th Century BC to 146 BC
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568 to 774
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Monday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965
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Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
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1838 to Present
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Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
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1095 to 1291
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Thursday Oct 29, 1903 to Friday Feb 25, 1994
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1856 to Present
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Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
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Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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Robert Fulton

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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato...

Tuesday May 7, 1946 to Present
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 4...

Saturday Jul 6, 1946 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
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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
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Juan Carlos I

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Wednesday Jan 5, 1938 to Present
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
Howard Hughes 1938 Image

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, inves...

Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
John Forbes Nash Image

John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundament...

Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
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Thanksgiving

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1536 to Present
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Antibiotic

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Tuesday Apr 19, 1910 to Present
Xanax
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1971 to Present
Angelina Jolie

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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Putin Image

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence o...

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Halimah Yacob
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
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Jim Carrey

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Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
Irish War of Independence

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Tuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921
IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company he...

Friday Jun 16, 1911 to Present
KFC
KFC

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

1952 to Present
New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the F...

Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous youn...

Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
The Bank of America Corporate Center, headquarters of Bank of America in Charlotte

The Bank of America Corporation (simply referred to as Bank of America, often abbreviated as BofA) i...

1956 to Present
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
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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
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
Carlos the Jackal Image

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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Juneteenth

Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberati...

Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and politician...

Sunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975
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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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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between ...

1941 to 1945
Christine Lagarde

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

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 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
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
Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran - 1727 Tabriz earthquake

The 1727 Tabriz earthquake occurred on 18 November with an epicenter near Tabriz in northwest Iran....

Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
Sojourner Truth

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

1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
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
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
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
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