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Wednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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17th Century to Present
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Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
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Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
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Friday May 12, 1865 to Thursday May 11, 1865
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
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1960 to Present
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1268 to 1268
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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Wednesday Dec 20, 1989 to Wednesday Jan 31, 1990
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280s BC to 642
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
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Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
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Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
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Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
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Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
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1952 to Present
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Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
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1943 to Present
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Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
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5th Century to 15th Century
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Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
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Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
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2001 to Present
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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
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Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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Wednesday Jul 28, 1943 to Present
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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
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Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
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Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 23, 1940 to Present
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Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
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Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
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Thursday Oct 2, 1884 to Present
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Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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Monday Nov 6, 1989 to Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
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Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
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1st Century to Present
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Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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1986 to Present
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1016 to Present
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1975 to Present
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1973 to 1979
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
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Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
Francisco Franco

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Sunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975
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Berlin Wall

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1961 to 1989
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Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
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1670s to 1680
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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
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Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
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Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
Hirohito
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong

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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
Certosa di Pavia
Huns

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4th Century to 469
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Marlon Brando

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Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
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
IBM
IBM

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

Friday Jun 16, 1911 to Present
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and phila...

Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1...

Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
Halimah Yacob
Halimah Yacob

Halimah binti Yacob is a Singaporean politician who is the current President of Singapore. Formerly ...

Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Titanic
Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after the sh...

Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
Kaka
Kaká

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
FIFA logo

The FIFA World Cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA, the world's football governing body, decided t...

Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is the collective name of a series of fortification systems generally built ...

220s BC to Present
Gold Room Bretton Woods Participating Nations Display Case - Bretton Woods Conference

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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
Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer ...

Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for i...

2000s BC to 1697
Albrecht Kossel

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of gene...

Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
Bactria Map
Bactria

Bactria was an ancient region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain r...

26th Century BC to 10th Century
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s to Present
Impeachment of Bill Clinton

The impeachment of Bill Clinton was initiated on October 8, 1998, when the United States House of Re...

Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
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