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The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause occurred between mid-December 1...

Wednesday Dec 20, 1989 to Wednesday Jan 31, 1990
Buckingham Palace

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1703 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
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Sepp Blatter

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (Fr...

Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
Hot Dog
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The hot dog (also spelled hotdog) is a grilled or steamed sausage sandwich where the sausage is serv...

1200 to Present
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The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resi...

Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
Coverture
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13th Century to 1966
MOTHER'S DAY
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
YouTube
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
Labor Day
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Labor Day (Labor Day in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of wor...

1856 to Present
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
Xanana Gusmão - image

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, is an East Timorese politician. A former militant, he was the first Presiden...

Thursday Jun 20, 1946 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
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The Scythians Saka, Sakae, Iskuzai, or Askuzai, were an ancient nomadic people of Eurasia, inhabitin...

1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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Andrew Yang

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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
Slobodan Milošević Image

Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the President of Serbia (ori...

Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)

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221 BC to 220
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Korean War

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Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
Dwayne Johnson

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Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
Garry Kasparov Image

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion,...

Saturday Apr 13, 1963 to Present
Hurricane Katrina Image

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on...

Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
Communist troops in the Battle of Siping - Chinese Civil War Image

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Monday Aug 1, 1927 to Monday Aug 7, 1950
Shaquille O'Neal

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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
Lionel Messi
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Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
Vasily Zaitsev Image

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the...

Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
Franklin Roosevelt Image

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR...

Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
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
Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran - 1727 Tabriz earthquake

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Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
Palace of Versailles

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Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
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2001 to Present
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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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Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
Muhammad Ali Pasha

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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
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Wednesday Nov 20, 1985 to Present
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Robert Fulton

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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
Leonardo da Vinci

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Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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1986 to Present
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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution

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Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Tuesday Aug 15, 1769 to Saturday May 5, 1821
The Great Wall of China

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220s BC to Present
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David Ben-Gurion (16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State o...

Saturday Oct 16, 1886 to Saturday Dec 1, 1973
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Image

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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

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2000s BC to 1697
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Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
River Phoenix
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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Malcolm X

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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
Nancy Pelosi
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Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
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Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
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Wednesday Nov 13, 1918 to Sunday Aug 3, 1919
Ayman al-Zawahri

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Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
Bitcoin
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Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
1935 Quetta earthquake

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Friday May 31, 1935 to Friday May 31, 1935
Alan Turing
Alan Turing

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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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
Celine Dion
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a c...

1865 to Present
Ciro Immobile Image
Ciro Immobile

Ciro Immobile is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Lazio an...

Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 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
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
Cyprus flag

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

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
Emmanuel Macron Image

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician serving as Presi...

Wednesday Dec 21, 1977 to Present
Romulus and his twin brother Remus
Roman Kingdom

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750s BC to 509 BC
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
Brazilian Revolution of 1930

The Revolution of 1930 also known as the 1930 coup d'état or coup of 1930 was an armed movement in B...

Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
Angela Merkel Image
Angela Merkel

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Saturday Jul 17, 1954 to Present
2008 Sichuan earthquake

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Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded...

Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
Bob Marley Image
Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the pioneers o...

Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, ...

Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Tuesday Aug 27, 1963
Cover, first serial edition of 1849 - David Copperfield

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal His...

1850 to Present
Iranian Revolution Image

The Iranian Revolution also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution, was a series of ...

Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
Michael Phelps Image

Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American retired competitive swimmer and the most ...

Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
King Juan Carlos Image
Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain, from 1975 until...

Wednesday Jan 5, 1938 to Present
Mug shot of Pearl Fernandez

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
Library
Libraries

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
Mamie Till at Emmett's funeral
Mamie Till

Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till...

Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
A painting dedicated to the founders of Black History Month, the Black United Students at Kent State University, by Ernie Pryor

Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known...

Feb, 1969 to Present
The official opening of the League of Nations.

The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission...

Saturday Jan 10, 1920 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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Adidas

Adidas AG is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that...

Thursday Aug 18, 1949 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
Putin Image

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

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India natio...

Saturday Nov 5, 1988 to Present
John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

Monday Jun 4, 1883 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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
J.F.Kennedy Image

Often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president o...

Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
Shakira Image
Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist...

Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial ...

Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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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