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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
Kingdom of Pergamon

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282 BC to 133 BC
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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
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Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
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Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
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Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
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Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
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Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
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280s BC to 642
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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
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1745 to Present
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Monday Feb 24, 1868
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Saturday May 7, 1892 to Sunday May 4, 1980
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933 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
Christine Lagarde

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Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
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1016 to Present
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Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
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Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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21st Century BC to 221 BC
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Monday Jun 15, 1992 to Present
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Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 16, 1867 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
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1950s to Present
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Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
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Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Monday Mar 21, 1955 to Present
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494 to Present
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1200 to Present
IBM
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Friday Jun 16, 1911 to Present
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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1850 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Bicycle
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1817 to Present
Itzak Stern
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Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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Wednesday Aug 23, 1978 to Sunday Jan 26, 2020
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
Margaret Thatcher Image

Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...

Tuesday Oct 13, 1925 to Monday Apr 8, 2013
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
Virat Kohli
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Saturday Nov 5, 1988 to Present
Jeff Bezos
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
Howard Hughes 1938 Image

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Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
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Monday Jun 21, 1982 to Present
A Colombian marine on a field training exercise

The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Wednesday May 27, 1964 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
Chocolate
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15th Century BC to Present
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
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Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later Kin...

Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
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Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
Justin Trudeau Image

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd an...

Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
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
Ebola virus (SEM)

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Jun, 1976 to Present
Hungarian flag with the 1949–1956 communist emblem cut out

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the...

Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Elliot Page
Elliot Page

Elliot Page (born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page; February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. H...

Saturday Feb 21, 1987 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
Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) is a retired professional American basketball p...

Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
Chris Gardner and his Son

Christopher Jarrett Medina Gardner was born to Chris Gardner and Jackie Medina, on 28 January 1981. ...

Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
Mussolini biografia

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the Na...

Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
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Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office is l...

Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
3D medical animation corona virus Image

Corona-viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus...

Dec, 2019 to Present
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
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Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who s...

Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
Brazilian Revolution of 1930

The Revolution of 1930 also known as the 1930 coup d'état or coup of 1930 was an armed movement in B...

Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
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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
Mikhail Gorbachev Image

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The e...

Monday Mar 2, 1931 to Present
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