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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
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Sunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999
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Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
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The Kingdom of the Lombards also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of Italy, was an ea...

568 to 774
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
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The German revolutions of 1848–1849, the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution...

1848 to 1849
Sojourner Truth

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1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
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The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was initiated on February 24, 1868, when the United States House o...

Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Monday Feb 24, 1868
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
Carter G. Woodson

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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
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MacOS is a series of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. si...

1985 to 2019
Mendeleev

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Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
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Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
Ellie Goulding

Elena Jane Goulding (30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. Her career began when sh...

Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name ...

Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
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Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India natio...

Saturday Nov 5, 1988 to Present
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
The Great Wall of China

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220s BC to Present
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

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Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
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Monday Jun 15, 1992 to Present
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
Ronaldinho
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Brazilian former professional footballer and ambassador for Barcelona. He played mostly as an attack...

Friday Mar 21, 1980 to Present
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The Huns were nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the...

4th Century to 469
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Wednesday Nov 20, 1985 to Present
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Often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president o...

Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
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933 to Present
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Fido (1941 – June 9, 1958) was an Italian dog that came to public attention in 1943 because of his d...

1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
Shaquille O'Neal

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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and ph...

Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
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27 BC to 395
Carlos Slim
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Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
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Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
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1815 to 1871
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
Seleucid Empire

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312 BC to 63 BC
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Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
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1929 to 1933
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Jun, 1976 to Present
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Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French former professional footba...

Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
Nikola Tesla
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Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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1986 to Present
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Monday Dec 16, 2013 to Present
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1986 to Present
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Waghya

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1670s to 1680
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Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
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Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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1914 to 1923
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Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Saturday Mar 31, 1685 to Tuesday Jul 28, 1750
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Tony Blair

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Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
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Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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1st Century to Present
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Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
Itzak Stern
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Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
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Mar, 2009 to Present
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The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

1645 to Nov, 1979
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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
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
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Android

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open ...

Oct, 2003 to Present
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The Central Park jogger case (When They See Us) was a criminal case in the United States based on th...

Wednesday Apr 19, 1989 to Monday May 1, 1989
Elon Musk
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Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate, industrial designer, and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CT...

Monday Jun 28, 1971 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
Financial crisis of 2007–2008

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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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Spanish Flu

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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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iOS

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

2005 to Present
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
Kheops-Pyramid

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26th Century BC to Present
United Nations

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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
Alcatraz Island March 1962 Image

The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-secur...

Monday Jun 11, 1962 to Present
Kingdom of Pergamon

The Attalid dynasty or the Kingdom of Pergamon ​was a Hellenistic Greek dynasty that ruled much of A...

282 BC to 133 BC
Frederick Douglass

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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
Donald Trump
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Karol Józef Wojtyła (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign o...

Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
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Gabriel Fernandez (February 20, 2005 – May 24, 2013) was an eight-year-old American boy from Palmdal...

Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
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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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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong also known by his courtesy name Mao Runzhi and the title Chairman Mao as Chairman of th...

Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Best Buy

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

Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
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The Hungarian–Romanian War was fought between the First Hungarian Republic (as the Hungarian Soviet ...

Wednesday Nov 13, 1918 to Sunday Aug 3, 1919
Halimah Yacob
Halimah Yacob

Halimah binti Yacob is a Singaporean politician who is the current President of Singapore. Formerly ...

Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an A...

Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
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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
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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and...

Monday Jun 10, 2019 to Sunday Apr 8, 1973
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
Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran - 1727 Tabriz earthquake

The 1727 Tabriz earthquake occurred on 18 November with an epicenter near Tabriz in northwest Iran....

Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
Mehan Markle Image

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born on August 4th, 1981) is an American former actress and a member of t...

Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
Temple of Hephaestus - Athens, Greece - Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece period in Greek history lasting from around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Emp...

9th Century BC to 146 BC
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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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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
Hachiko Image
Hachikō

Hachikō (November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935) was a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his remarkable l...

Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
Putin Image

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

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Magdi Yacoub
Magdi Yacoub

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub is an Egyptian-British cardiothoracic surgeon. He is Professor of Cardiothora...

Saturday Nov 16, 1935 to Friday Nov 15, 1935
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