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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
Mikhail Gorbachev Image

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The e...

Monday Mar 2, 1931 to Present
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
Nancy Pelosi
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Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as Speaker of the Unit...

Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
Johan Cruyff
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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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Harald V

Harald V is the King of Norway, having ascended to the throne upon the death of his father King Olav...

Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
Celine Dion
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
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Hachikō

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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
Flag of Christmas Island

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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Cathedral of St. Helena
Stuart Long

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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
Etruscan mother and child

The Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly w...

900 BC to 27 BC
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The Beatles

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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, and author. In the 19...

Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
Hirohito
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
Mexican Revolution

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Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
Papa John's Pizza logo Image

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Thursday Oct 2, 1884 to Present
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The Holocaust

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1941 to 1945
Q. Servilius Caepio

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509 BC to 27 BC
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Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
Gita Gopinath
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
Freddie Mercury

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Thursday Sep 5, 1946 to Sunday Nov 24, 1991
Abraham Lincoln

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Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
Elizabeth Blackwell

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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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Wednesday Apr 18, 1906 to Present
Martial arts
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4th Millenium BC to Present
Cyprus flag

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

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
First Sino-Japanese War Image

The First Sino-Japanese War, also known as the Chino-Japanese War, was fought between China and Japa...

Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
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Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
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Thursday Aug 31, 1995 to Friday Dec 10, 2004
Ruby Bridges
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
Severo Ochoa
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
Nelson Mandela Image

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Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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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
FIFA logo

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Sunday Jul 13, 1930 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
Marcus Garvey
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Wednesday Aug 17, 1887 to Monday Jun 10, 1940
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Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
Chris Gardner and his Son

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Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
Brazilian Revolution of 1930

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Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
Bart Millard
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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
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Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
Jimmy Hoffa
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
Marilyn Monroe Image

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshel...

Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
Samuel Little

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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
The World Bank
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
Mamie Till at Emmett's funeral
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Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
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Kobe Bryant

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Wednesday Aug 23, 1978 to Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution

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Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
Theresa May
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Sunday Sep 30, 1956 to Present
Albert Einstein

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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
Adolf Hitler
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Saturday Apr 20, 1889 to Monday Apr 30, 1945
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
The Great Wall of China

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220s BC to Present
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Frank Sinatra

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Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
Carlos Slim
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Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

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Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
The Second Boer War

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Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
Battle at Soufflot barricades at Rue Soufflot

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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
Kremlin, Russia Image

The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on 26 December 1991, officially granting self-governing...

Sunday Mar 10, 1985 to Thursday Dec 26, 1991
Billie Eilish
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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
Atari logo
Atari, Inc.

Atari is a brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Inte...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
Plane Crashes Images

The air planes accidents happened in the twentieth century....

Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
Brexit
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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
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
Assyrian Empire
Assyria

Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near ...

2500 BC to 609 BC
Muhammad Ali Pasha

Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan was the Alb...

Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
Mobile Nokia 1011
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While the transmission of speech by radio has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, ...

Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Wordmark of Sony - image

Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato...

Tuesday May 7, 1946 to Present
Chocolate
Chocolate

Chocolate is a preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds that are made in the form of a liquid, ...

15th Century BC to Present
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1...

Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
Linux logo Tux Image
Linux

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating...

Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
Pelé Image
Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, (born 23 October 1940), known as Pelé, is a Brazilian retired professio...

Wednesday Oct 23, 1940 to Present
Rwandan genocide

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Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, ...

Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

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Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
Dżok Monument
Džok

EDżok is a Black mongrel dog (1990–1991), throughout the entire year, Dżok was seen waiting in vain ...

1990 to 1998
Red Dog statue

Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) was a kelpie/cattle dog cross that was well known for his trave...

1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
Carter G. Woodson

Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Associat...

Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United Sta...

Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and...

Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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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
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
September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist atta...

Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
Daniel Craig - Film Premiere "Spectre" - James Bond
James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer ...

1953 to Present
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

The Ptolemaic Kingdom was an Ancient Greek state based in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period. It wa...

305 BC to 30 BC
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
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
Caracas (Venezuela), March 5, 2014. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, participated in the commemoration of the death of Commander Hugo Chávez Image

The Bolivarian Revolution is a political process in Venezuela that was led by Venezuelan President H...

Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
Lula da Silva Image
Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian pol...

Saturday Oct 27, 1945 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
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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, t...

Thursday Apr 1, 1976 to Present
Giannis Antetokounmpo

Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee ...

Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American politician and soldier w...

Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
Howard Hughes 1938 Image

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, inves...

Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
Bosnian War

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina betwee...

Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
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