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2600 BC to Present
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
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Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
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Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 to Present
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Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
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Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Friday Apr 23, 1858 to Saturday Oct 4, 1947
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
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Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
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Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
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Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
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Tuesday Apr 28, 1908 to Wednesday Oct 9, 1974
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 19, 1910 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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Monday Dec 16, 2013 to Present
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Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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Sunday Mar 10, 1985 to Thursday Dec 26, 1991
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Saturday Oct 16, 1886 to Saturday Dec 1, 1973
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Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
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Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
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Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
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Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
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Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
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Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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9th Century BC to 146 BC
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Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
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482 to Thursday Nov 14, 565
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305 BC to 30 BC
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
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Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
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Sunday Sep 26, 1976 to Present
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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
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1883 to Present
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Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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1952 to Present
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Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
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Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
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Oct, 2003 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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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
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1838 to Present
Gary Ridgway
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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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Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
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4th Century to Present
Leonardo da Vinci

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Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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World War II (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), also known as Second World War, was a global war that ...

Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
Alan Turing
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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philo...

Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence move...

Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician serving as Presi...

Wednesday Dec 21, 1977 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
Doss Desmond US Army Image

Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served...

Friday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006
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
Abraham Lincoln

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Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
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Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to ...

Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuati...

395 to 1453
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
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League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by R...

Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Nuclear Power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which mo...

1943 to Present
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