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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)...

Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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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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Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
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1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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2600 BC to Present
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Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an A...

Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
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Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
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1985 to 2019
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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
Battle during the Second Crusade
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1095 to 1291
Mona Lisa
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1500s to 1517
The World Bank
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
LeBron James
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Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
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Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
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Wednesday Jun 13, 1928 to Saturday May 23, 2015
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Monday Oct 21, 1833 to Thursday Dec 10, 1896
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Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
1997 Asian financial crisis

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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

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1929 to 1933
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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
Elon Musk
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Monday Jun 28, 1971 to Present
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
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Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

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Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
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Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
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Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
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494 to Present
Flag of Christmas Island

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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Banner of the Holy Roman Empire

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799 to 1806
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Oct, 2003 to Present
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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
The Great Wall of China

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220s BC to Present
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
The Great Stupa at Sanchi
Ancient India

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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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1990 to 1998
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19th Century BC to 539 BC
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Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
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1016 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
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Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
George W. Bush

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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
Zorig Memorial in Ulan-Bator

The Mongolian Revolution of 1990 was a democratic peaceful revolution that started with demonstratio...

Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
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
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
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
Vladimir Lenin

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Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
Bill Gates Image
Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, p...

Friday Oct 28, 1955 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
Atlantic Charter

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Thursday Aug 14, 1941 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
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1110s BC to 730s BC
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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
Diego Maradona

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Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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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
Cleopatra and Caesar
Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and its last active ruler. A m...

69 BC to Saturday Aug 10, 30 BC
Itzak Stern
Itzak Stern

Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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Internet

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1950s to Present
Coverture
Coverture

Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's lega...

13th Century to 1966
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
Soviet-R-12-nuclear-ballistic missile

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Mis...

Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
Chris Gardner and his Son

Christopher Jarrett Medina Gardner was born to Chris Gardner and Jackie Medina, on 28 January 1981. ...

Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
3D medical animation corona virus Image

Corona-viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus...

Dec, 2019 to Present
Central Park May Image

The Central Park jogger case (When They See Us) was a criminal case in the United States based on th...

Wednesday Apr 19, 1989 to Monday May 1, 1989
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person t...

Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
All Giza Pyramids in one shot
Ancient Egypt

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

32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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
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Mobile Phones

While the transmission of speech by radio has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, ...

Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
(1905 Russian Revolution) A train overturned by striking workers at the main railway depot in Tiflis

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through va...

Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
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
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the Fren...

Tuesday Aug 15, 1769 to Saturday May 5, 1821
Demolished vehicles line Highway 80, also known as the "Highway of Death", the route fleeing Iraqi forces took as they retreated fom Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm Image
Gulf War

The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – ...

Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) is a retired professional American basketball p...

Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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
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
Prince Charles Image

Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest son of Queen Eliza...

Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
Oculus Rift

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from t...

1838 to Present
Greenland

The Denmark expedition, also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, was an ...

Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
Bicycle
Bicycle

A bicycle, also called a bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered, pedal-driven, single-tr...

1817 to Present
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