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2500 BC to 609 BC
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Wednesday Apr 19, 1989 to Monday May 1, 1989
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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
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Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
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1973 to 1979
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Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
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Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
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Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
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Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
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26th Century BC to Present
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Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
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Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
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Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
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Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
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Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
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Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
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Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
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Saturday Jan 10, 1920 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
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Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
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Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
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Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
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1952 to Present
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Monday Nov 6, 1989 to Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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933 to Present
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

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2000s BC to 1697
Francesco Totti

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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
Banner of the Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe that d...

799 to 1806
Lady Gaga
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Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
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Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington. Amaz...

Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who...

Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
Theresa May
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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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Windows

Microsoft Windows, commonly referred to as Windows, is a group of several proprietary graphical oper...

Wednesday Nov 20, 1985 to Present
1970 Ancash earthquake

The 1970 Ancash earthquake (also known as the Great Peruvian earthquake) occurred on 31 May off the ...

Sunday May 31, 1970 to Sunday May 31, 1970
Nobel Prize
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Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
Borgo San Lorenzo monument to Fido
Fido (dog)

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1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
Marco van Basten

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Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
Gustav Stresemann

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Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
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The Library of Congress (LC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congre...

Thursday Apr 24, 1800 to Present
Martial arts
Martial arts

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4th Millenium BC to Present
Carlos the Jackal Image

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan terro...

Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
The Second Boer War

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Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
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