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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international pea...

Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
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Beethoven

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

Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American political leader, military...

Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
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
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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
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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large terr...

27 BC to 395
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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical opera...

Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
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Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who s...

Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, ...

Monday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965
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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
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
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
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Arameans

The Arameans were an ancient Semitic-speaking people in the Near East, first recorded in historical ...

1110s BC to 730s BC
Theodore Kaczynski
Ted Kaczynski

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former m...

Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
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
Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the...

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Juneteenth

Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberati...

Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
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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
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
The Hillsborough Memorial

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during an association football match at Hillsborou...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
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
Elliot Page
Elliot Page

Elliot Page (born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page; February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. H...

Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
Alan Turing
Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philo...

Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
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
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Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manu...

Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engin...

Monday Oct 21, 1833 to Thursday Dec 10, 1896
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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Repub...

Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first ...

Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
Francesco Totti

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

Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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Spanish Flu

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

Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
Chernobylreactor

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of Pripyat...

Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
Angelina Jolie

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

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

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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George Weah

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

Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Kheops-Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid comple...

26th Century BC 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
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India natio...

Saturday Nov 5, 1988 to Present
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
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
Westminster Palace

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

1016 to Present
Battle at Soufflot barricades at Rue Soufflot

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime ...

Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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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
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Kroger

The Kroger Company, is an American retail company founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, O...

1883 to Present
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestand...

Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 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
Bernard Arnault

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born March 5, 1949) is a French billionaire business magnate, and art ...

Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
Valentine greeting card

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated an...

494 to Present
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Ciro Immobile

Ciro Immobile is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Lazio an...

Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
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Mamluks

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

1250 to 1517
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

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the gove...

Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
Sherry Dyson
Sherry Dyson

Sherry Dyson is Mathematical expert. She was known because of his husband Chris Gardner. Chris is a ...

1950s 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
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who develope...

Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
Heysel plan

The Heysel Stadium Events occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach b...

Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to ...

Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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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
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
Oculus
Oculus

Oculus is a brand of Facebook Technologies, LLC (formerly known as Oculus VR, LLC), a subsidiary of ...

Jul, 2012 to Present
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Oppo

Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd, commonly referred to as OPPO, is a Chinese cons...

2001 to Present
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
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
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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular an...

Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
Ayman al-Zawahri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is the current leader of al-Qaeda and a current or former member an...

Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
Second Sino-Japanese War (Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937) Image

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China ...

Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
Russell Bufalino

Rosario Alberto Bufalino (born October 29, 1903) was an Italian-born American mobster who became the...

Thursday Oct 29, 1903 to Friday Feb 25, 1994
Papa John's Pizza logo Image

Papa John's Pizza is an American pizza restaurant franchise. It runs the fourth largest pizza delive...

Thursday Oct 2, 1884 to Present
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
Lucky Luciano Image
Lucky Luciano

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania in November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an infl...

Wednesday Nov 24, 1897 to Friday Jan 26, 1962
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
Christine Lagarde

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

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
Father's Day
Father's Day

Father's Day is a day of honoring fatherhood, paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in...

1908 to Present
A laser beam used for welding
Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimula...

1960 to Present
A painting dedicated to the founders of Black History Month, the Black United Students at Kent State University, by Ernie Pryor

Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known...

Feb, 1969 to Present
Mamie Till at Emmett's funeral
Mamie Till

Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till...

Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
Harald V Image
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
Xanax
Xanax

Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a short-acting benzodiazepine. It is m...

1971 to Present
Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer ...

Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
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Latter & Blum, ABR, SRS, e-PRO, SFR, GRI, MRP 2018 President of Louisiana REALTORS, and she is well-...

1955 to Present
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
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
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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
Berlin Wall Image
Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from...

1961 to 1989
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Meditation

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the ...

5th Millenium BC to Present
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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between ...

1941 to 1945
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
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
Vasily Zaitsev Image

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the...

Tuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991
The Great Stupa at Sanchi
Ancient India

According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian su...

31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution, headquartered in Wa...

Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current President of Turkey sin...

Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemis...

Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, (born 23 October 1940), known as Pelé, is a Brazilian retired professio...

Wednesday Oct 23, 1940 to Present
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
Putin Image

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence o...

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Banking hacks image

Bank fraud is the criminal act of breaching the security measures of a financial institution to stea...

Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
Simon Bolivar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco (24 July 1783 ...

Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Image

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence move...

Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
Java

Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to...

Tuesday May 23, 1995 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
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (14/15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), known as Leonardo da Vinci, was an I...

Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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