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Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
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Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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568 to 774
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Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
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Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
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Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
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1703 to Present
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Theresa Mary May MP (born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the U...

Sunday Sep 30, 1956 to Present
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
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Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
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Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
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Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Richard Branson

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Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
Willem Einthoven

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Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
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Wednesday Jul 28, 1954 to Tuesday Mar 5, 2013
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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2001 to Present
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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
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2500 BC to 609 BC
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Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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Thursday Dec 28, 1922 to Monday Nov 12, 2018
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1956 to Present
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Sunday May 31, 1970 to Sunday May 31, 1970
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Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
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Wednesday Nov 20, 1985 to Present
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
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Monday Dec 17, 1962 to Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Feb, 1969 to Present
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Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
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1929 to 1933
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
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Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
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221 BC to 220
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1883 to Present
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1990 to 1998
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
Juan Trippe
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd an...

Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
YouTube
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
Seleucid Empire

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312 BC to 63 BC
Willis Carrier Image

Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known f...

Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
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Symbian OS

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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person t...

Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
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Gulf War

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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
Financial crisis of 2007–2008

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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz that established itse...

1250 to 1517
Giannis Antetokounmpo

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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
Flames engulf a building following the outbreak of hostilities between the Panamanian Defense Force and U.S. forces during Operation Just Cause

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Wednesday Dec 20, 1989 to Wednesday Jan 31, 1990
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1850 to Present
Oculus Rift

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1838 to Present
First Indochina War COLLAGE - image

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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The Ten-Day War, or the Slovenian Independence War, was a brief conflict that followed the Slovenian...

Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
Ottoman Empire Coat of arms

The Ottoman Empire was a state that controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northe...

1299 to Monday Mar 3, 1924
Virus Microscope Infection

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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2...

Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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
Kingdom of Pergamon

The Attalid dynasty or the Kingdom of Pergamon ​was a Hellenistic Greek dynasty that ruled much of A...

282 BC to 133 BC
Chumlee
Chumlee

Austin Lee Russell (born September 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Chumlee, is an American ...

Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 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
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
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Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festiv...

17th Century to Present
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iOS

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

2005 to Present
DC Comics logo
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
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
Tony Blair Image
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister ...

Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
Salvador Dali Image
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
Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah

Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Eg...

Monday Jun 15, 1992 to Present
Black Friday
Black Friday

Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, whi...

1952 to Present
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Spanish Flu

The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. La...

Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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
Elizabeth Holmes

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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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