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Saturday Jul 17, 1954 to Present
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Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
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1941 to 1945
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1500s to 1517
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933 to Present
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Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
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Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 to Present
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Mar, 2009 to Present
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1975 to Present
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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
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1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Tuesday Aug 27, 1963
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Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
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Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
Marco van Basten

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Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
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1956 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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482 to Thursday Nov 14, 565
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Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
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Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
Seleucid Empire

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312 BC to 63 BC
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1985 to 2019
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Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
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Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
George W. Bush

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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Jacinda Ardern

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Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
PlayStation Network

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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

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1789 to 1848
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
Elizabeth Blackwell

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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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5th Century to 15th Century
Richard Branson

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Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
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Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
Library of Alexandria

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280s BC to 642
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
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27 BC to 395
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Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
Orderly repatriation of Argentine army POWs 1982
Falklands War

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Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
Titanic
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
Albrecht Kossel

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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey

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Wednesday Aug 17, 1887 to Monday Jun 10, 1940
British army in Brunei
Brunei revolt

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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1

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1815 to 1871
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Cinnabon

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Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
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iOS

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2005 to Present
Rafael Nadal Image
Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked wor...

Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
The Beatles Image
The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The line-up of John Lennon, Paul ...

Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
Benjamin Banneker

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Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

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Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
Shaquille O'Neal

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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. With a car...

Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
Intel microprocessor

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

Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
The Headquarters of the UNCTAD are located at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as an interg...

Wednesday Dec 30, 1964 to Present
Windmills
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A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts t...

1st Century to Present
Incandescent light bulb with a medium-sized E27 (Edison 27 millimeter) male screw base - image

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with ...

Friday Jan 1, 1802 to Present
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
Hittites
Hittites

The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom i...

1750 BC to 1180s BC
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
Iran-Iraq War Image

The Iran–Iraq War began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and ended on 20 August 1988, w...

Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
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Juneteenth

Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberati...

Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
Mass shootings in the United States

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence. The precise inc...

Tuesday Sep 6, 1949 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
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Viet...

Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
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
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff OON (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football playe...

Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical opera...

Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a lea...

Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
Korean War Image
Korean War

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of Chin...

Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart

Kevin Darnell Hart is an American stand-up comedian and actor....

Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
Ellie Goulding

Elena Jane Goulding (30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. Her career began when sh...

Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
Bay of Pigs Invasion Image

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligen...

Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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