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Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
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1975 to Present
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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933 to Present
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
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Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
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Jan, 1982 to Present
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1856 to Present
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1949 to Present
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
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May, 1969 to 1970
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
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Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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1961 to 1989
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
Tony Hawk
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Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
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Jun, 1976 to Present
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Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning f...

Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
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Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
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Thursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
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Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
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280s BC to 642
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
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Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
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Friday Jan 1, 1802 to Present
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Thursday Dec 1, 1949 to Thursday Dec 2, 1993
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1940s to Present
Harry S. Truman

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Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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1250 to 1517
Mendeleev

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Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
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Wednesday Jul 28, 1943 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
Cristiano Ronaldo

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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
Charles de Gaulle

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Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
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Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
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1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
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Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
Marcus Garvey
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Wednesday Aug 17, 1887 to Monday Jun 10, 1940
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Feb, 1969 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
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Spanish Flu

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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

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Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 40...

Saturday Jul 26, 1980 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
Destroyed Yugoslav Army T-55 tank. This tank was hit by a Croatian AT missile, abandoned by its crew and later destroyed by another JNA tank

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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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Oct, 2003 to Present
The Headquarters of the UNCTAD are located at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as an interg...

Wednesday Dec 30, 1964 to Present
Bart Millard
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Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known...

Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the le...

Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
Francesco Totti

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Monday Sep 27, 1976 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
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1850 to Present
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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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
Elliot Page
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Elliot Page (born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page; February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. H...

Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
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Kobe Bryant

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Wednesday Aug 23, 1978 to Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Halimah Yacob
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Halimah binti Yacob is a Singaporean politician who is the current President of Singapore. Formerly ...

Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
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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
Stephen Hawking Image

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmo...

Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Chris McCandless Image

Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and...

Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked wor...

Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
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Huawei

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

Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
Windmills
Wind turbine

A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts t...

1st Century to Present
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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
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named ...

Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
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Samsung

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It compr...

Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
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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
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
Silvio Berlusconi Image

Silvio Berlusconi (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served ...

Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 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
Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath

Gita Gopinath has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. In that ro...

Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
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
Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in Western Asia, during the Hellenistic Period, that existed f...

312 BC to 63 BC
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Kosovo War

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started in late February 1998 and lasted until 1...

Sunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr (13 August 985 – 13 February 1021), better known by his regnal name al-Ḥākim bi-Amr ...

Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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
Flag of Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1...

1919 to 1933
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
Battle during the Second Crusade
Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Lat...

1095 to 1291
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