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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
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5th Century to 15th Century
Ellie Goulding

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Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
Heysel plan

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Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

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Friday Jul 10, 1953 to Present
Gary Ridgway
Gary Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initia...

Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
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Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
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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
Titanic
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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after the sh...

Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
Theodelinda married Agilulf

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568 to 774
Cyprus flag

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

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
Financial crisis of 2007–2008

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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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1952 to Present
Albrecht Kossel

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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
Mohamed Aly Image

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Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
Buckingham Palace

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1703 to Present
Dwayne Johnson

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Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
Java

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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
Kevin Hart
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Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
Flag of Weimar Republic

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1919 to 1933
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
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1438 to 1533
Impeachment of Bill Clinton

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Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
Chris Gardner Sep 2011

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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
Frederick Douglass

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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
Hittites
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
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1st Century to Present
Chris Gardner and his Son

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Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
Black Friday
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1952 to Present
Library of Alexandria

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280s BC to 642
Rwandan genocide

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Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
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27 BC to 395
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Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
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Monday Aug 1, 1927 to Monday Aug 7, 1950
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

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Thursday Feb 24, 2022 to Present
Chocolate
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15th Century BC to Present
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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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1940s to Present
Nobel Prize
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Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
Francesco Totti

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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

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Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
Billie Eilish
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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1985 to 2019
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Tuesday May 7, 1946 to Present
Fulton Image
Robert Fulton

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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
Winston Churchill

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Monday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965
Charles de Gaulle

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Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
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
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Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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9th Century BC to 146 BC
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17th Century to Present
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14th Century to Present
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
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Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi...

Tuesday Apr 28, 1908 to Wednesday Oct 9, 1974
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Saturday May 7, 1892 to Sunday May 4, 1980
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Thursday Oct 2, 1884 to Present
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Lula da Silva

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Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
Martin Bormann

Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He ga...

Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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Gulf War

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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
Q. Servilius Caepio

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509 BC to 27 BC
1783 Calabrian earthquakes

The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Cal...

Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
Hungarian flag with the 1949–1956 communist emblem cut out

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the...

Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise...

Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
Beethoven Image
Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. ...

Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
Mendeleev

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating...

Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
Ayman al-Zawahri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is the current leader of al-Qaeda and a current or former member an...

Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
Osama bin Laden Image
Bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), also rendered Usama bin Ladin,...

Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
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
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the le...

Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
HTC Image
HTC

HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, New T...

Thursday May 15, 1997 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
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Jacintha Darlene Gardner was born on 5 October 1985. She is the daughter of Chris Gardner. Her broth...

Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
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Linux

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Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
Battle at Soufflot barricades at Rue Soufflot

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime ...

Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
Atlantic Charter

The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goal...

Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
Oculus
Oculus

Oculus is a brand of Facebook Technologies, LLC (formerly known as Oculus VR, LLC), a subsidiary of ...

Jul, 2012 to Present
Zara
Zara

Zara SA, stylized as ZARA, is a Spanish apparel retailer based in Arteixo in Galicia. The company sp...

1975 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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th ...

Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi

Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both FC Barcelona and the Arge...

Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
Aramean funeral stele Louvre
Arameans

The Arameans were an ancient Semitic-speaking people in the Near East, first recorded in historical ...

1110s BC to 730s BC
Martin Luther King Image

Was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in...

Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
Frank Sinatra 1957 - image
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular an...

Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
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
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
Cathedral of St. Helena
Stuart Long

Stuart Ignatius Long (July 26, 1963 – June 9, 2014) was an American boxer and Catholic priest who de...

Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
Mussolini biografia

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the Na...

Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accola...

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
King Juan Carlos Image
Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain, from 1975 until...

Wednesday Jan 5, 1938 to Present
Bob Marley Image
Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the pioneers o...

Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
The Great Stupa at Sanchi
Ancient India

According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian su...

31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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