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Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
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Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
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Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
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Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
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1789 to 1848
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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
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Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
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Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
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Monday Oct 21, 1833 to Thursday Dec 10, 1896
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Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
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Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
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Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
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Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Monday Dec 17, 1962 to Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
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Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
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Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
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Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
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Thursday Aug 26, 1999 to Sunday Apr 30, 2000
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15th Century BC to Present
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
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Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
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1952 to Present
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1299 to Monday Mar 3, 1924
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Friday Mar 21, 1980 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
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Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
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Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
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Saturday Apr 13, 1963 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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1950s to Present
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Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
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1645 to Nov, 1979
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
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Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
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Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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Saturday Jan 10, 1920 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
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1941 to 1945
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 to Present
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1883 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
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17th Century to Present
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Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
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Monday Nov 6, 1989 to Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
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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
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
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Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
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Wednesday Jul 28, 1943 to Present
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Wednesday Aug 23, 1978 to Sunday Jan 26, 2020
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
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Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
Billie Eilish
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
Assyrian Empire
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2500 BC to 609 BC
Yersinia pestis
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14th Century to Present
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Malcolm X

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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
Chernobylreactor

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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
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Che Guevara

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

Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
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Mother Teresa

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), commonly known as Mother Teresa and honour...

Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
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
Diving horse
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A diving horse is an attraction that was popular in the mid-1880s, in which a horse would dive into ...

1881 to 1993
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is cons...

1500s to 1517
Justinianus I
Justinian I

Justinian I also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565....

482 to Thursday Nov 14, 565
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
Mass shootings in the United States

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Tuesday Sep 6, 1949 to Present
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DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, ...

Monday Jun 25, 1934 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
Itzak Stern
Itzak Stern

Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident were stu...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
Brexit
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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