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Sunday May 31, 1970 to Sunday May 31, 1970
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1st Century to Present
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Tuesday Aug 15, 1769 to Saturday May 5, 1821
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Sunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999
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1883 to Present
Temple of Hephaestus - Athens, Greece - Ancient Greece

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9th Century BC to 146 BC
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Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
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Monday Aug 1, 1927 to Monday Aug 7, 1950
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Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
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The Ten-Day War, or the Slovenian Independence War, was a brief conflict that followed the Slovenian...

Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
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Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
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Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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1536 to Present
Lionel Messi
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Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both FC Barcelona and the Arge...

Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
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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
The Bank of America Corporate Center, headquarters of Bank of America in Charlotte

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1956 to Present
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Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
Yersinia pestis
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14th Century to Present
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Oct, 2003 to Present
Jimmy Hoffa
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
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19th Century BC to 539 BC
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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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750s BC to 509 BC
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Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
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1268 to 1268
World War II
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
Titanic
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
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4th Millenium BC to Present
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
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1986 to Present
Carter G. Woodson

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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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Thursday Dec 1, 1949 to Thursday Dec 2, 1993
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1110s BC to 730s BC
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
Buckingham Palace

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1703 to Present
Ruby Bridges
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 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
Galileo Galilei

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Saturday Feb 15, 1564 to Wednesday Jan 8, 1642
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Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
Michael Ballack

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Sunday Sep 26, 1976 to Present
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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
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Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Tuesday Aug 27, 1963
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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2500 BC to 609 BC
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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
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Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
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1299 to Monday Mar 3, 1924
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Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
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1848 to 1849
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Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
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1438 to 1533
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
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4th Century to Present
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The unification of Italy was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the con...

1815 to 1871
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Monday Jun 12, 1972 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
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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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
Mohamed Aly Image

born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr(January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, ...

Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
Current Bhutan flag

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1949 to Present
German Empire

The unification of Germany into the German Empire, a Prussian-dominated nation state with federal fe...

Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
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Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
Michael Jordan

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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
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Jim Carrey

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

Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
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
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
Heysel plan

The Heysel Stadium Events occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach b...

Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
Christine Lagarde

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

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 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
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Image

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence move...

Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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
Library
Libraries

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
Louis Armstrong Image

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an A...

Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
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Sofia Kenin

Sofia Anna Kenin is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Ass...

Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Oppo

Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd, commonly referred to as OPPO, is a Chinese cons...

2001 to Present
Franklin Roosevelt Image

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
HTC Image
HTC

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

Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist atta...

Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
2008 Sichuan earthquake

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occur...

Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti (born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional footballer who played for...

Monday Sep 27, 1976 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
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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
The Great Stupa at Sanchi
Ancient India

According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian su...

31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
Scythian comb
Scythian

The Scythians Saka, Sakae, Iskuzai, or Askuzai, were an ancient nomadic people of Eurasia, inhabitin...

1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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
Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who...

Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
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