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Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
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Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
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Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
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Jan, 1982 to Present
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
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Tuesday Jul 1, 2003 to Present
The Headquarters of the UNCTAD are located at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

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Wednesday Dec 30, 1964 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
Oculus Rift

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1838 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
Elizabeth Blackwell

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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu

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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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2000s BC to 1697
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15th Century BC to Present
Rwandan genocide

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Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
Bicycle
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1817 to Present
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1

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1815 to 1871
Flag of the United States

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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
Ho Chi Minh
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
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Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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568 to 774
J.F.Kennedy Image

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Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
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Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
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1943 to Present
Ruhollah Khomeini

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Wednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989
Martin Bormann

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Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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Tuesday Apr 16, 1867 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
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Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
Donald Trump
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
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26th Century BC to Present
Cathedral of St. Helena
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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
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Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
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1883 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
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Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
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Tuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921
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Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
Francesco Totti

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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
Second Sino-Japanese War (Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937) Image

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Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Mona Lisa
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is cons...

1500s to 1517
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Marlon Brando

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Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
Muhammad Yunus

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

Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
Logo of the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congre...

Thursday Apr 24, 1800 to Present
Theodore Kaczynski
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Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former m...

Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
Logo of Amazon
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 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
Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ, is an American form...

Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
Q. Servilius Caepio

The Roman Republic was a state of the classical Roman civilization, run through public representatio...

509 BC to 27 BC
Assyrian Empire
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2500 BC to 609 BC
Temple of Hephaestus - Athens, Greece - Ancient Greece

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9th Century BC to 146 BC
Shimon Peres Main Image
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Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
Indira Gandhi Image
Indira Gandhi

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Monday Nov 19, 1917 to Wednesday Oct 31, 1984
Martin Luther King Image

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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

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Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
Carlos Slim
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Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and phila...

Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
Mass shootings in the United States

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence. The precise inc...

Tuesday Sep 6, 1949 to Present
Beethoven Image
Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. ...

Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
Huawei logo - image
Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommuni...

Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
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
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
IOS Logo Image
iOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusivel...

2005 to Present
Civil War USA Coll
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
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
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 19...

1929 to 1933
Amancio Ortega Portrait

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder a...

Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
Westminster Palace

The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords...

1016 to Present
Library of Alexandria

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

280s BC to 642
disasters

A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage or ...

Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman, politician, c...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
The Bank of America Corporate Center, headquarters of Bank of America in Charlotte

The Bank of America Corporation (simply referred to as Bank of America, often abbreviated as BofA) i...

1956 to Present
MOTHER'S DAY
Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bon...

Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
Christine Lagarde

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician, businessperson, and lawyer serving as Pre...

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
MacOS wordmark (2017) Image
MacOS

MacOS is a series of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. si...

1985 to 2019
Wordmark of Sony - image

Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato...

Tuesday May 7, 1946 to Present
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
Uber logo
Uber

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American multinational ride-hailing company o...

Mar, 2009 to Present
Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as...

Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Vodafone logo
Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office is l...

Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
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