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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
Doss Desmond US Army Image

Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served...

Friday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006
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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Frank Fritz

An actor, known for American Pickers, born October 11, 1965....

Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
Yersinia pestis
Plague

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, wea...

14th Century to Present
HTC Image
HTC

HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, New T...

Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
Xerox headquarters in Norwalk
Xerox

Xerox Holdings Corporation (also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print ...

Wednesday Apr 18, 1906 to Present
Ayman al-Zawahri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is the current leader of al-Qaeda and a current or former member an...

Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
Collage of Images From The Vietnam War
Vietnam War

The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Again...

Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
Michael Phelps Image

Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American retired competitive swimmer and the most ...

Saturday Jun 29, 1985 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
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
Zorig Memorial in Ulan-Bator

The Mongolian Revolution of 1990 was a democratic peaceful revolution that started with demonstratio...

Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
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
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
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
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
Xanax
Xanax

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

1971 to Present
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 19...

1929 to 1933
The Beatles Image
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
The Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Bo...

Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
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Latter & Blum, ABR, SRS, e-PRO, SFR, GRI, MRP 2018 President of Louisiana REALTORS, and she is well-...

1955 to Present
Stalin's Image
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin born in 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary a...

Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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
Flag of Christmas Island

The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the s...

Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Galileo Galilei

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronome...

Saturday Feb 15, 1564 to Wednesday Jan 8, 1642
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USA civil war

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confede...

Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
Cristiano Ronaldo

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

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 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
Dollar Tree
Dollar Tree

Dollar Tree, formerly known as Only $1.00, is an American multi-price-point chain of discount variet...

1986 to Present
Destroyed Yugoslav Army T-55 tank. This tank was hit by a Croatian AT missile, abandoned by its crew and later destroyed by another JNA tank

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the gove...

Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
Penicillin
Penicillin

Penicillin (PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics, derived originally from common moulds known as Pe...

1928 to Present
Banking hacks image

Bank fraud is the criminal act of breaching the security measures of a financial institution to stea...

Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
Jim Carrey Image
Jim Carrey

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

Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
Juneteenth Flag
Juneteenth

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

Monday Sep 22, 1862 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
Current Bhutan flag

The national flag of Bhutan is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features a dragon fro...

1949 to Present
Angela Merkel Image
Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She serve...

Saturday Jul 17, 1954 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
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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
Xiaomi logo Image
Xiaomi

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

Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
Marvel Studios

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film studio ...

Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 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
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
Fulton Image
Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is w...

Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
Chichen Itza piramid in México
Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period....

5th Century to 15th Century
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
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
Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in Western Asia, during the Hellenistic Period, that existed f...

312 BC to 63 BC
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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
Samuel Little

Samuel Little was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, all women. He was ...

Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Chernobylreactor

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of Pripyat...

Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
All Giza Pyramids in one shot
Ancient Egypt

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

32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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
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
Reddit
Reddit

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

Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s to Present
Salvador Dali Image
Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professional...

Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
Garry Kasparov Image

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion,...

Saturday Apr 13, 1963 to Present
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
Red Dog statue

Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) was a kelpie/cattle dog cross that was well known for his trave...

1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
Bosnian War

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina betwee...

Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
Communist troops in the Battle of Siping - Chinese Civil War Image

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of...

Monday Aug 1, 1927 to Monday Aug 7, 1950
Q. Servilius Caepio

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

509 BC to 27 BC
Logo of Ford Motor Company - image
Ford

Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that has its main headquarter in Dearborn,...

Tuesday Jun 16, 1903 to Present
King Juan Carlos Image
Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain, from 1975 until...

Wednesday Jan 5, 1938 to Present
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)...

Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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
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
Zara
Zara

Zara SA, stylized as ZARA, is a Spanish apparel retailer based in Arteixo in Galicia. The company sp...

1975 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
Nuclear power
Nuclear Power

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

1943 to Present
LeBron James
LeBron James

LeBron Raymone James Sr. (born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for ...

Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
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
Armenian Genocide

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

1914 to 1923
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
Steven Spielberg image

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of th...

Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

Qaboos bin Said Al Said (18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was the Sultan of Oman from 23 July 197...

Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
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
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
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
Caracas (Venezuela), March 5, 2014. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, participated in the commemoration of the death of Commander Hugo Chávez Image

The Bolivarian Revolution is a political process in Venezuela that was led by Venezuelan President H...

Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

Ibrahim Pasha was a general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and un...

1789 to 1848
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
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
Westminster Palace

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

1016 to Present
Elizabeth Holmes

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

Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young...

Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
Mamie Till at Emmett's funeral
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
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
Daniel Craig - Film Premiere "Spectre" - James Bond
James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer ...

1953 to Present
Slobodan Milošević Image

Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the President of Serbia (ori...

Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
 Dahomey Amazons

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

1645 to Nov, 1979
Theodore Kaczynski
Ted Kaczynski

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former m...

Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
J.F.Kennedy Image

Often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president o...

Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
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
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
Che Guevara Image
Che Guevara

Was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military t...

Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
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
Certosa di Pavia
Huns

The Huns were nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the...

4th Century to 469
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