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Jun, 1976 to Present
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Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
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Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
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Friday May 4, 1855 to Sunday Jan 14, 1872
Labor Day
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1856 to Present
Etruscan mother and child

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900 BC to 27 BC
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Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
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Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
Simon Bolivar

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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Karol Józef Wojtyła (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign o...

Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
Lionel Messi
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Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

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1865 to Present
Popeyes restaurant in Houston, Texas
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Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
Logo of the Library of Congress

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Thursday Apr 24, 1800 to Present
Bernard Arnault

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Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
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1941 to 1945
Hong Kong independence flag

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Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
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Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
LeBron James
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Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
Sherry Dyson
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1950s to Present
The Bank of America Corporate Center, headquarters of Bank of America in Charlotte

The Bank of America Corporation (simply referred to as Bank of America, often abbreviated as BofA) i...

1956 to Present
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 to Present
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

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Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
Nuclear power
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1943 to Present
Oculus Rift

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1838 to Present
Stephen Hawking Image

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Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
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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Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
Patch Adams
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Halimah Yacob
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Albrecht Kossel

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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
Richard Jewell

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Monday Dec 17, 1962 to Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
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1745 to Present
Dollar Tree
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1986 to Present
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
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Wednesday Jul 28, 1943 to Present
Iran-Iraq War Image

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Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
Red Dog statue

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1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
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Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
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Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
April Fools' Day

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Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
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Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
Kheops-Pyramid

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26th Century BC to Present
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Internet

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1950s to Present
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Pelé

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Wednesday Oct 23, 1940 to Present
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Monday Jun 10, 2019 to Sunday Apr 8, 1973
Nikola Tesla
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Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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Oct, 2003 to Present
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Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
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Thursday Dec 28, 1922 to Monday Nov 12, 2018
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1815 to 1871
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Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
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4th Century to 469
Father's Day
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1908 to Present
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
Doss Desmond US Army Image

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Friday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006
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Thursday Apr 1, 1976 to Present
New York Stock Exchange

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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
Shaquille O'Neal

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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
Chris McCandless Image

Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
Angelina Jolie

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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
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Inca Empire

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1438 to 1533
Silvio Berlusconi Image

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Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 to Present
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Andrew Yang

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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
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Roman Kingdom

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750s BC to 509 BC
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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
Princess Diana Image

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Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
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Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professional...

Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
Richard Branson

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Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
Severo Ochoa
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
Chocolate
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15th Century BC to Present
Incandescent light bulb with a medium-sized E27 (Edison 27 millimeter) male screw base - image

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Friday Jan 1, 1802 to Present
Chris Kyle Image

Christopher Scott Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL sniper. He served four tours in the Iraq War an...

Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
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
Alcatraz Island March 1962 Image

The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-secur...

Monday Jun 11, 1962 to Present
1935 Quetta earthquake

The 1935 Quetta earthquake occurred on 31 May between 2:33 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, Br...

Friday May 31, 1935 to Friday May 31, 1935
Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle, lasting roughly from 1910 to 1920, that transform...

Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
Che Guevara Image
Che Guevara

Was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military t...

Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician who was the 45th president of the U...

Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
Reddit
Reddit

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Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
Barack Obama Image
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as t...

Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
Alfred Nobel Image
Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engin...

Monday Oct 21, 1833 to Thursday Dec 10, 1896
IOS Logo Image
iOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusivel...

2005 to Present
J.F.Kennedy Image

Often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president o...

Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
Prince Charles Image

Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest son of Queen Eliza...

Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
Heysel plan

The Heysel Stadium Events occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach b...

Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

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Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
Samuel Little

Samuel Little was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, all women. He was ...

Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and so...

Wednesday Dec 16, 1936 to Present
Cleopatra and Caesar
Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and its last active ruler. A m...

69 BC to Saturday Aug 10, 30 BC
Bactria Map
Bactria

Bactria was an ancient region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain r...

26th Century BC to 10th Century
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Ru...

Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
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