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Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
Library of Alexandria

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

280s BC to 642
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
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21st Century BC to 221 BC
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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
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26th Century BC to Present
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Thursday Apr 24, 1800 to Present
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1941 to 1945
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Tuesday Jan 27, 1756 to Wednesday May 11, 1791
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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1645 to Nov, 1979
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Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
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Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
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Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
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Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
Giannis Antetokounmpo

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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
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568 to 774
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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company he...

Friday Jun 16, 1911 to Present
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Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
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1850 to Present
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Jan, 1982 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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1952 to Present
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Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Wednesday Nov 24, 1897 to Friday Jan 26, 1962
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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Monday May 14, 1984 to Present
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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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1848 to 1849
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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27 BC to 395
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
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Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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1950s to Present
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1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
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Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
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1536 to Present
Albert Einstein

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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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1950s to Present
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Monday Sep 1, 1958 to Present
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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
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Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
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Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
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Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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1986 to Present
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
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1703 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
Ruby Bridges
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
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Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
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Tuesday Sep 6, 1949 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
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Rosa Parks

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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Jimmy Carter
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James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and philanthropist who served...

Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
Ted Bundy
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Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous youn...

Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
Brexit
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Falklands War

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Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

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Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
Cathedral of St. Helena
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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
Simon Bolivar

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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
Gary Ridgway
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Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
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Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (Fr...

Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
Itzak Stern
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Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
Joe Biden
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

Monday Jun 4, 1883 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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The Hungarian–Romanian War was fought between the First Hungarian Republic (as the Hungarian Soviet ...

Wednesday Nov 13, 1918 to Sunday Aug 3, 1919
Labor Day
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Labor Day (Labor Day in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of wor...

1856 to Present
Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437 – 8 June 1492) was queen of England as the spouse of King Edward IV fro...

1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
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Atari, Inc.

Atari is a brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Inte...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
Library
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The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
Flag of Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1...

1919 to 1933
Intel microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing uni...

Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
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
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

is a French billionaire heiress and an author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish-Christian re...

Friday Jul 10, 1953 to Present
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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, ...

Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served...

Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
Nuclear power
Nuclear Power

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

1943 to Present
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until ...

Wednesday Jul 28, 1954 to Tuesday Mar 5, 2013
Financial crisis of 2007–2008

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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

Jamal Ja'far Muhammad Ali Al Ibrahim (1 July 1954 – 3 January 2020), known by the kunya Abu Mahdi al...

Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
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