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Friday May 12, 1865 to Thursday May 11, 1865
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Monday Nov 15, 1971 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
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Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
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1299 to Monday Mar 3, 1924
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Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
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Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
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Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
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Thursday Sep 5, 1946 to Sunday Nov 24, 1991
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Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1933 to Present
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Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
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494 to Present
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1883 to Present
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Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
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Friday Aug 26, 1910 to Friday Sep 5, 1997
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Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
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13th Century to 1966
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Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
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27 BC to 395
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1110s BC to 730s BC
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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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395 to 1453
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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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Wednesday Apr 18, 1906 to Present
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Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
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Wednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
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Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
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799 to 1806
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19th Century BC to 539 BC
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Monday Dec 17, 1962 to Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
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Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
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Tuesday Aug 26, 1997 to Present
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Monday Feb 6, 1911 to Saturday Jun 5, 2004
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Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
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2018 to 2025
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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
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Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
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Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
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Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
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933 to Present
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Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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Joseph Stalin

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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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1953 to Present
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1960 to Present
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Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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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
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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482 to Thursday Nov 14, 565
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
Ayman al-Zawahri

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Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
Muhammad Ali Pasha

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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
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1789 to 1848
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
Severo Ochoa
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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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Bill Gates

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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
Greenland

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Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
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Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, is an East Timorese politician. A former militant, he was the first Presiden...

Thursday Jun 20, 1946 to Present
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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
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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Gulf War

The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – ...

Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
Statue of Greyfriars Bobby

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Friday May 4, 1855 to Sunday Jan 14, 1872
Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437 – 8 June 1492) was queen of England as the spouse of King Edward IV fro...

1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
Russell Bufalino

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Thursday Oct 29, 1903 to Friday Feb 25, 1994
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iOS

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2005 to Present
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
Samuel Little

Samuel Little was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 people, all women. He was ...

Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
FIFA logo

The FIFA World Cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA, the world's football governing body, decided t...

Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for i...

2000s BC to 1697
First Sino-Japanese War Image

The First Sino-Japanese War, also known as the Chino-Japanese War, was fought between China and Japa...

Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
Iranian Revolution Image

The Iranian Revolution also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution, was a series of ...

Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
Slobodan Milošević Image

Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the President of Serbia (ori...

Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
Nicaraguan Revolution

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Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
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