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750s BC to 509 BC
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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1928 to Present
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1985 to 2019
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4th Century to Present
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Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
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The Holocaust

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1941 to 1945
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Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
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2600 BC to Present
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900 BC to 27 BC
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
Father's Day
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1908 to Present
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1929 to 1933
Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution

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Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
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395 to 1453
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Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
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Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
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
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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
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Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
Carter G. Woodson

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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
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Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
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Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
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Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
Joe Biden
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
Cathedral of St. Helena
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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
Richard Nixon
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Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
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Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
Elon Musk
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Monday Jun 28, 1971 to Present
A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)

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221 BC to 220
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

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305 BC to 30 BC
Battle during the Second Crusade
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1095 to 1291
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Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
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May, 1969 to 1970
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Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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Monday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962
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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
Vasily Zaitsev Image

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Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
Nelson Mandela Image

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Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
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Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
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1973 to 1979
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Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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1865 to Present
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
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Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
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Jun, 1976 to Present
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1986 to Present
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire

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27 BC to 395
Intel microprocessor

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Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
Gita Gopinath
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Gita Gopinath has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. In that ro...

Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
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While the transmission of speech by radio has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, ...

Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (William Arthur Philip Louis born 21 June 1982) is a member of the...

Monday Jun 21, 1982 to Present
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
Itzak Stern
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Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
Borgo San Lorenzo monument to Fido
Fido (dog)

Fido (1941 – June 9, 1958) was an Italian dog that came to public attention in 1943 because of his d...

1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

Ibrahim Pasha was a general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and un...

1789 to 1848
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
Dollar Tree
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Dollar Tree, formerly known as Only $1.00, is an American multi-price-point chain of discount variet...

1986 to Present
Statue of Waghya at Raigad Fort
Waghya

Waghya, (meaning tiger in Marathi), was a mixed-breed pet dog of Maratha king Shivaji Maharaj, known...

1670s to 1680
Emmanuel Macron Image

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician serving as Presi...

Wednesday Dec 21, 1977 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
Shimon Peres Main Image
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Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
Rafael Nadal Image
Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked wor...

Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
PlayStation logo
PlayStation

PlayStation (officially abbreviated as PS) is a video game brand that consists of four home video ga...

Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
Indira Gandhi Image
Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian...

Monday Nov 19, 1917 to Wednesday Oct 31, 1984
Iranian Revolution Image

The Iranian Revolution also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution, was a series of ...

Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
Doss Desmond US Army Image

Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served...

Friday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
Bart Millard
Bart Millard

Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known...

Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
Marlon Brando Image
Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. With a car...

Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
Library of Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant li...

280s BC to 642
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon

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
XBOX logo 2012 Image
X-box

Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. It represents a series of video game co...

Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, ...

Monday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965
Oliver Wright and Wilbur Wright Image

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 3...

Tuesday Apr 16, 1867 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
Amancio Ortega Portrait

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder a...

Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
Nuclear power
Nuclear Power

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

1943 to Present
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The German revolutions of 1848–1849, the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution...

1848 to 1849
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India natio...

Saturday Nov 5, 1988 to Present
Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanth...

Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
Destroyed Yugoslav Army T-55 tank. This tank was hit by a Croatian AT missile, abandoned by its crew and later destroyed by another JNA tank

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the gove...

Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
Bitcoin
Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name ...

Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
Palace of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the s...

Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
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
Garry Kasparov Image

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion,...

Saturday Apr 13, 1963 to Present
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