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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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1789 to 1848
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13th Century to 1966
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1953 to Present
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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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1986 to Present
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
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69 BC to Saturday Aug 10, 30 BC
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Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
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Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
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1st Century to Present
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Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
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Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
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Friday Jul 10, 1953 to Present
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Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
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Friday May 4, 1855 to Sunday Jan 14, 1872
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5th Millenium BC to Present
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1883 to Present
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
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Sunday May 31, 1970 to Sunday May 31, 1970
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Thursday Dec 1, 1949 to Thursday Dec 2, 1993
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
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Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
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1952 to Present
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Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
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Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
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Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
Seleucid Empire

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312 BC to 63 BC
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
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Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
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Thursday Aug 31, 1995 to Friday Dec 10, 2004
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Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
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1645 to Nov, 1979
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Monday Mar 21, 1955 to Present
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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Dec, 2019 to Present
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4th Millenium BC to Present
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Saturday Apr 13, 1963 to Present
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
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Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
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Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
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Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
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1941 to 1945
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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
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1986 to Present
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Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Saturday Mar 31, 1685 to Tuesday Jul 28, 1750
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1961 to 1989
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Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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15th Century BC to Present
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
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Falklands War

The Falklands War was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over...

Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
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Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author....

Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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1850 to Present
Qasem Soleimani

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Monday Mar 11, 1957 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
Current Bhutan flag

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1949 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
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Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
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1950s to Present
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
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21st Century BC to 221 BC
Samuel Little

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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
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Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
Lady Gaga
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Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
Hirohito
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Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning f...

Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
Schindler, Oskar Image

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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Memorial day

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Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
2008 Sichuan earthquake

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occur...

Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution

The Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911, was a revolut...

Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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Red Summer

Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacis...

Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 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
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1095 to 1291
1783 Calabrian earthquakes

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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
Spiez Castle
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933 to Present
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Image

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years. He was the fou...

Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
NATO flag

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernme...

Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
Nelson Mandela Image

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and ph...

Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident were stu...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is the collective name of a series of fortification systems generally built ...

220s BC to Present
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