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Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
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Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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1438 to 1533
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Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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2000s BC to 1697
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Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
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32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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282 BC to 133 BC
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Wednesday Nov 13, 1918 to Sunday Aug 3, 1919
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Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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17th Century to Present
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Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
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Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
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1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
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27 BC to 395
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Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
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Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
Chris McCandless Image

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Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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1975 to Present
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The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resi...

Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
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Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
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1973 to 1979
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
Irish War of Independence

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Tuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921
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1928 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1933 to Present
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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
Ruby Bridges
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 20, 1989 to Wednesday Jan 31, 1990
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Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
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1919 to 1933
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
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Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
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Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
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2600 BC to Present
Christine Lagarde

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Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
Harry S. Truman

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Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
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Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
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4th Century to 469
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750s BC to 509 BC
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
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Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
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Monday Sep 1, 1958 to Present
Severo Ochoa
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
Marvel Studios

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Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 to Present
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
Reddit
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Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
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Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacis...

Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
George W. Bush

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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
Gary Ridgway
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Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initia...

Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
Mehan Markle Image

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born on August 4th, 1981) is an American former actress and a member of t...

Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
Raúl Castro Image
Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician who is currently serving as the First Secretary of the...

Wednesday Jun 3, 1931 to Present
Muhammad Ali Pasha

Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan was the Alb...

Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
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Best Buy

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richf...

Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
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Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommuni...

Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
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
Bill Gates Image
Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, p...

Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, con...

Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 to Present
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party (N...

Saturday Apr 20, 1889 to Monday Apr 30, 1945
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Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It compr...

Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
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
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
Battle during the Second Crusade
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Lat...

1095 to 1291
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
Nuclear power
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Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which mo...

1943 to Present
Aaron Hernandez Image

Aaron Josef Hernandez (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was a convicted murderer and American foot...

Monday Nov 6, 1989 to Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
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
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
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
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Xerox

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

Wednesday Apr 18, 1906 to Present
Mamluk lancers
Mamluks

The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz that established itse...

1250 to 1517
Michael Ballack

Michael Ballack is a retired German footballer. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of ...

Sunday Sep 26, 1976 to Present
Ciro Immobile Image
Ciro Immobile

Ciro Immobile is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Lazio an...

Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Unit...

Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
Hong Kong independence flag

Hong Kong independence is a movement that advocates Hong Kong becoming an independent sovereign stat...

Monday Aug 29, 1842 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
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Ford

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

Tuesday Jun 16, 1903 to Present
Westminster Palace

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

1016 to Present
Nicaraguan Revolution

The Nicaraguan Revolution encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s ...

Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution, headquartered in Wa...

Thursday Dec 27, 1945 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
Zinedine Zidane - image

Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French former professional footba...

Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran - 1727 Tabriz earthquake

The 1727 Tabriz earthquake occurred on 18 November with an epicenter near Tabriz in northwest Iran....

Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
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
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