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BMW

BMW is a German multinational company which produces automobiles and motorcycles. The company was fo...

Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
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
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Was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and th...

Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
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The air planes accidents happened in the twentieth century....

Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Ernst Stresemann (10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as Chancell...

Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
The Great Stupa at Sanchi
Ancient India

According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian su...

31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
Statue of Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby (May 4, 1855 – January 14, 1872) was a Skye Terrier who became known in 19th-centur...

Friday May 4, 1855 to Sunday Jan 14, 1872
Juan Trippe
Juan Trippe

Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan A...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
King Edward VIII
Edward VIII

Edward VIII later Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick Davi...

Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
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Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young...

Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Ru...

Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author....

Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Putin Image

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence o...

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanth...

Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
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The Communist insurgency in Sarawak occurred in Malaysia from 1962 to 1990, and involved the North K...

Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, ...

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an A...

Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
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Brunei revolt

The Brunei revolt was a December 1962 insurrection in the British protectorate of Brunei by opponen...

Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
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Gary Webb

Gary Stephen Webb was an American investigative journalist. He began his career working for newspape...

Thursday Aug 31, 1995 to Friday Dec 10, 2004
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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
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernme...

Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk

Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder,...

Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served...

Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
Library of Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant li...

280s BC to 642
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Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister ...

Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
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USA civil war

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confede...

Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
Titanic
Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after the sh...

Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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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Prince Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charl...

Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
Palace of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the s...

Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
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Internet

The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts to interconnect computer networks that aro...

1950s to Present
The World Bank
World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides interest-free loans and grant...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
Theresa May
Theresa May

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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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
Max Planck
Max Planck

Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta wo...

Friday Apr 23, 1858 to Saturday Oct 4, 1947
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Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She serve...

Saturday Jul 17, 1954 to Present
Kaka
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Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Gabriel Fernandez (February 20, 2005 – May 24, 2013) was an eight-year-old American boy from Palmdal...

Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa

James Riddle Hoffa (born February 14, 1913; disappeared July 30, 1975, declared dead July 30, 1982) ...

Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
Akio Morita
Akio Morita

Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka....

Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
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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
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who develope...

Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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
Oculus
Oculus

Oculus is a brand of Facebook Technologies, LLC (formerly known as Oculus VR, LLC), a subsidiary of ...

Jul, 2012 to Present
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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of th...

32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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The Bolivarian Revolution is a political process in Venezuela that was led by Venezuelan President H...

Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician who was the 45th president of the U...

Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
Certosa di Pavia
Huns

The Huns were nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the...

4th Century to 469
Willis Carrier Image

Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known f...

Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
Samuel Little

Samuel Little was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, all women. He was ...

Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Bart Millard
Bart Millard

Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known...

Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle, lasting roughly from 1910 to 1920, that transform...

Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437 – 8 June 1492) was queen of England as the spouse of King Edward IV fro...

1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
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Meditation

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the ...

5th Millenium BC to Present
Eminem
Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem, is an American r...

Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 to Present
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
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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kin...

Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
Stan Lee
Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic bo...

Thursday Dec 28, 1922 to Monday Nov 12, 2018
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later Kin...

Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
Gary Ridgway
Gary Ridgway

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
Current Bhutan flag

The national flag of Bhutan is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features a dragon fro...

1949 to Present
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-C...

1438 to 1533
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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Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period....

5th Century to 15th Century
Alcatraz Island March 1962 Image

The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-secur...

Monday Jun 11, 1962 to Present
Cathedral of St. Helena
Stuart Long

Stuart Ignatius Long (July 26, 1963 – June 9, 2014) was an American boxer and Catholic priest who de...

Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
John Forbes Nash Image

John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundament...

Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
Chris Gardner Sep 2011

Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker...

Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time (02:04:07 UTC) on 25 December. With an e...

Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

Qaboos bin Said Al Said (18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was the Sultan of Oman from 23 July 197...

Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, som...

1536 to Present
Hungarian flag with the 1949–1956 communist emblem cut out

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the...

Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Intel microprocessor

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

Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
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
Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and politician...

Sunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975
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
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An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when U...

2018 to 2025
Robin Williams 1996 Image

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Born i...

Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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Sofia Kenin

Sofia Anna Kenin is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Ass...

Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American technology and media services provider and production company headquart...

Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s to Present
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Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professional...

Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
Anyanya Flag

The First Sudanese Civil War (also known as the Anyanya Rebellion or Anyanya I, after the name of th...

Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
Juneteenth Flag
Juneteenth

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

Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
Sculpture of Shep

Shep was the name given to a herding dog that appeared at the Great Northern Railway station one day...

1930s to Monday Jan 12, 1942
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely consid...

Saturday Jun 17, 1882 to Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
Mehan Markle Image

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born on August 4th, 1981) is an American former actress and a member of t...

Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
Bernard Arnault

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born March 5, 1949) is a French billionaire business magnate, and art ...

Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
Black Friday
Black Friday

Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, whi...

1952 to Present
Asia Minor map

The Cilicia earthquake occurred northeast of the city of Adana in 1268. Over 60,000 people perished ...

1268 to 1268
First Chechen War (A Chechen fighter stands near the government palace building during a short lull in fighting in Grozny, Chechnya) Image

The First Chechen War, also known as the First Chechen Сampaign, First Russian-Chechen war, or offic...

Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
Joe Biden
Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th ...

Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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
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
River Phoenix
River Phoenix

Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty P...

Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and philanthropist who served...

Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the F...

Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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
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