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Martin Luther King Image

Was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in...

Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist atta...

Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin born in 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary a...

Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
A three-dimensional printer - 3D printing
3D printing

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD...

1986 to Present
Atlantic Charter

The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goal...

Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
Ebola virus (SEM)

Ebola virus disease (EVD), or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primate...

Jun, 1976 to Present
Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accola...

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti (born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional footballer who played for...

Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
Richard Jewell

Richard Allensworth Jewell (born December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard...

Monday Dec 17, 1962 to Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
Brexit
Brexit

Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit") is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the...

Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuati...

395 to 1453
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami

The 1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the S...

Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
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
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
Daniel Craig - Film Premiere "Spectre" - James Bond
James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer ...

1953 to Present
Labor Day
Labor day

Labor Day (Labor Day in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of wor...

1856 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
Louis Armstrong Image

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
Asia Minor map

The Cilicia earthquake occurred northeast of the city of Adana in 1268. Over 60,000 people perished ...

1268 to 1268
Yersinia pestis
Plague

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, wea...

14th Century to Present
1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake

The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on June 21 at 00:30:14 local time in northern Iran. The s...

Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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X-box

Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. It represents a series of video game co...

Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
Assyrian Empire
Assyria

Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near ...

2500 BC to 609 BC
Hot Dog
Hot Dog

The hot dog (also spelled hotdog) is a grilled or steamed sausage sandwich where the sausage is serv...

1200 to Present
Algerian War Image
Algerian War

The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or the Algerian Revolution was foug...

Monday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962
Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch physician and physiologist. He invent...

Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
Flag of the United States Central Intelligence Agency
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
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff OON (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football playe...

Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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
Steven Spielberg image

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of th...

Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 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
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and phila...

Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
Dollar Tree
Dollar Tree

Dollar Tree, formerly known as Only $1.00, is an American multi-price-point chain of discount variet...

1986 to Present
April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on April ...

Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
Romulus and his twin brother Remus
Roman Kingdom

The Roman Kingdom, also referred to as the Roman monarchy, or the regal period of ancient Rome, was ...

750s BC to 509 BC
Narendra Damodardas Modi Image

Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and cu...

Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
NATO flag

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernme...

Monday Apr 4, 1949 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
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

Sooronbay Sharipovich Jeenbekov is a Kyrgyz politician, and the President of Kyrgyzstan. He official...

Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
Flag of Christmas Island

The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the s...

Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Mikhail Gorbachev Image

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The e...

Monday Mar 2, 1931 to Present
George Weah in Milan AC 1996 - image
George Weah

George Manneh Oppong Weah is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer currently ser...

Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Robin Williams 1996 Image

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Born i...

Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
Prince Harry Image
Prince Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charl...

Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is the collective name of a series of fortification systems generally built ...

220s BC to Present
Chris Gardner Sep 2011

Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker...

Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 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
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
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely consid...

Saturday Jun 17, 1882 to Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

On 24 February 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine, in a major escalation of the Russo...

Thursday Feb 24, 2022 to Present
Marco van Basten

Marcel "Marco" van Basten born 31 October 1964) is a Dutch football manager and former professional ...

Saturday Oct 31, 1964 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
Impeachment of Bill Clinton

The impeachment of Bill Clinton was initiated on October 8, 1998, when the United States House of Re...

Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
US Airways Flight 1549 (N106US) after crashing into the Hudson River Image

US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's ...

Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident were stu...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
Korean War Image
Korean War

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of Chin...

Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Image

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years. He was the fou...

Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge visits Sweden 02 Image

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (William Arthur Philip Louis born 21 June 1982) is a member of the...

Monday Jun 21, 1982 to Present
Plane Crashes Images

The air planes accidents happened in the twentieth century....

Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
Kaka
Kaká

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
Mobile Nokia 1011
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
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

Jamal Ja'far Muhammad Ali Al Ibrahim (1 July 1954 – 3 January 2020), known by the kunya Abu Mahdi al...

Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
Canon Camera
Cameras

A camera is an optical instrument used to record images. At their most basic, cameras are sealed box...

4th Century to Present
Banner of the Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe that d...

799 to 1806
Atari logo
Atari, Inc.

Atari is a brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Inte...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
Depiction of the earthquake in an engraving from 1696, possibly showing Catania - 1693 Sicily earthquake

The 1693 Sicily earthquake struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, Calabria, and Malta on Januar...

Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, ...

Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
Diving horse
Diving horse

A diving horse is an attraction that was popular in the mid-1880s, in which a horse would dive into ...

1881 to 1993
Map of conflict zones in Myanmar (Burma) - image

The Conflict in Myanmar is a series of primarily ethnic conflicts within Myanmar that began shortly ...

Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

Ibrahim Pasha was a general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and un...

1789 to 1848
Nicaraguan Revolution

The Nicaraguan Revolution encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s ...

Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
Mamluk lancers
Mamluks

The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz that established itse...

1250 to 1517
Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
Bosnian War

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina betwee...

Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
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
Chumlee
Chumlee

Austin Lee Russell (born September 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Chumlee, is an American ...

Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
(Second Chechen War) A Russian Mi-8 helicopter shot down by Chechen fighters near the Chechen capital, Grozny

Second Chechen War, also known as the Second Chechen Сampaign or officially Counter-terrorist operat...

Thursday Aug 26, 1999 to Sunday Apr 30, 2000
H1N1 navbox Image
Spanish Flu

The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. La...

Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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
Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a mass slaughter of Tutsi an...

Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
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
Rescue equipment in Tham Luang entrance chamber

In June and July 2018, a junior association football team was rescued from the Tham Luang Nang Non c...

Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
A Colombian marine on a field training exercise

The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
David Cameron Image
David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kin...

Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
Flag of Weimar Republic

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

1919 to 1933
Logo of Amazon
Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington. Amaz...

Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
Akio Morita
Akio Morita

Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka....

Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
The logo for Zoom Video Communications

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (stylized as zoom or simply Zoom) is an American communications tech...

Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
Gold Room Bretton Woods Participating Nations Display Case - Bretton Woods Conference

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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
HTC Image
HTC

HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, New T...

Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
Best Buy opens its 800th store in Chicago, Illinois
Best Buy

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richf...

Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
Westminster Palace

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

1016 to Present
Linux logo Tux Image
Linux

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating...

Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
2008 Sichuan earthquake

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occur...

Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
Walt Disney Image
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pionee...

Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
Garry Kasparov Image

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

Saturday Apr 13, 1963 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
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

is a French billionaire heiress and an author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish-Christian re...

Friday Jul 10, 1953 to Present
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
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World War 1

World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, also known as the First World War or the Great War, wa...

Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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