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Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
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Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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Monday Aug 1, 1927 to Monday Aug 7, 1950
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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
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Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
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Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
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Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 30, 1964 to Present
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Thursday Oct 2, 1884 to Present
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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
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Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
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Monday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965
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Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
Sojourner Truth

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1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
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Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
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Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
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Thursday Dec 1, 1949 to Thursday Dec 2, 1993
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1952 to Present
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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 to Present
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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
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Jun, 1976 to Present
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Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
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Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 5, 1938 to Present
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
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1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
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Monday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962
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1953 to Present
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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
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Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
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282 BC to 133 BC
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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69 BC to Saturday Aug 10, 30 BC
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Jan, 1982 to Present
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1815 to 1871
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, New T...

Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
Coverture
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13th Century to 1966
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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
A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)

Major events in the Early sub-period include the Qin unification of China and their replacement by t...

221 BC to 220
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Malcolm X

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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
Michael Jordan

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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Men...

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
Oculus Rift

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1838 to Present
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

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Friday Jul 10, 1953 to Present
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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician, stateswoman and a central figure of the Indian...

Monday Nov 19, 1917 to Wednesday Oct 31, 1984
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Oct, 2003 to Present
Marc O'leary

Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated b...

Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
Samuel Little

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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
Angelina Jolie

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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
German Empire

The unification of Germany into the German Empire, a Prussian-dominated nation state with federal fe...

Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
John Maynard Keynes

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Monday Jun 4, 1883 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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Wednesday Aug 23, 1978 to Sunday Jan 26, 2020
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Monday Jun 11, 1962 to Present
Bernard Arnault

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Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
The Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Bo...

Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
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
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Chan Kong-sang born 7 April 1954 known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kongese martial arti...

Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
Seleucid Empire

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312 BC to 63 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
1783 Calabrian earthquakes

The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Cal...

Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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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
Reddit
Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registere...

Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
Mohamed Aly Image

born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr(January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, ...

Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
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X-ray

X-ray, or X-radiation, is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays h...

Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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