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Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
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1952 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
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Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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1943 to Present
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Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
Yasunari Kawabata

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Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
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1919 to 1933
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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
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Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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1883 to Present
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Tuesday Jan 27, 1756 to Wednesday May 11, 1791
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1986 to Present
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1536 to Present
Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution

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Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
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1250 to 1517
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2600 BC to Present
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Thursday Jun 20, 1946 to Present
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13th Century to 1966
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Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 to Present
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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
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Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
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14th Century to Present
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
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1789 to 1848
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Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
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Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
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Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
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Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
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1856 to Present
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1016 to Present
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Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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Sunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
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1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
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Tony Blair

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Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
Mona Lisa
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1500s to 1517
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
Etruscan mother and child

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900 BC to 27 BC
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1985 to 2019
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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2018 to 2025
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Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
Carlos Slim
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Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
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Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
Justin Trudeau Image

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Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
Eiffel Tower
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Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
Celine Dion
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
The Headquarters of the UNCTAD are located at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

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Wednesday Dec 30, 1964 to Present
Virus Microscope Infection

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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
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Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
Hong Kong independence flag

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Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
Aaron Hernandez Image

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Monday Nov 6, 1989 to Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Depiction of the earthquake in an engraving from 1696, possibly showing Catania - 1693 Sicily earthquake

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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
Ancient China
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21st Century BC to 221 BC
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1881 to 1993
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
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Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquart...

Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the F...

Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)...

Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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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
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabet...

Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
Communist troops in the Battle of Siping - Chinese Civil War Image

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of...

Monday Aug 1, 1927 to Monday Aug 7, 1950
FIFA logo

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Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
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Samsung

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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Saturday Mar 31, 1685 to Tuesday Jul 28, 1750
Cyprus flag

Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
Mexican Revolution

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Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
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Ciro Immobile

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Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
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