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1703 to Present
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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
Shaquille O'Neal

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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
Brazilian Revolution of 1930

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Friday Oct 3, 1930 to Friday Oct 24, 1930
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David Ben-Gurion (16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State o...

Saturday Oct 16, 1886 to Saturday Dec 1, 1973
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Monday Jun 10, 2019 to Sunday Apr 8, 1973
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Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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Algerian War

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Monday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962
Elizabeth Woodville

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1437 to Wednesday Jun 8, 1492
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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
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Thursday Aug 31, 1995 to Friday Dec 10, 2004
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Oct, 2003 to Present
Donald Trump
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
Eminem
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Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 to Present
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
Michael Ballack

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Sunday Sep 26, 1976 to Present
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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu

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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
Hirohito
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
Mexican Revolution

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Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
Kaka
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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
Amancio Ortega Portrait

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Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Virus Microscope Infection

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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
Margaret Thatcher Image

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Tuesday Oct 13, 1925 to Monday Apr 8, 2013
Prince Charles Image

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Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
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1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
Adolf Hitler
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Saturday Apr 20, 1889 to Monday Apr 30, 1945
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

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Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
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Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
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Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
Albert Einstein

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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
Bicycle
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1817 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Jul, 2012 to Present
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Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
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Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
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Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
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Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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Wednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989
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Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 16, 1903 to Present
Freddie Mercury

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Thursday Sep 5, 1946 to Sunday Nov 24, 1991
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
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Thursday Apr 24, 1800 to Present
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17th Century to Present
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Internet

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1950s to Present
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1815 to 1871
Michael Jordan

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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
Q. Servilius Caepio

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509 BC to 27 BC
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27 BC to 395
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
Mohamed Salah
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Monday Jun 15, 1992 to Present
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

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Thursday Feb 24, 2022 to Present
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1095 to 1291
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
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Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
Assyrian Empire
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2500 BC to 609 BC
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
Frederick Douglass

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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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494 to Present
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

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Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
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The Beatles

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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professional...

Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
Cristiano Ronaldo

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

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
Gita Gopinath
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
Mesopotamian lions and flowers decorated the processional street - Ishtar Gate - Babylon
Babylon

Babylon was the capital city of Babylon, a kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia, between the 18th and 6th ...

19th Century BC to 539 BC
World War II
World War II

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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
League of Legends logo

League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by R...

Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office is l...

Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, con...

Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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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
Zara
Zara

Zara SA, stylized as ZARA, is a Spanish apparel retailer based in Arteixo in Galicia. The company sp...

1975 to Present
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Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young...

Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
Justin Trudeau Image

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd an...

Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
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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
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Sofia Kenin

Sofia Anna Kenin is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Ass...

Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-C...

1438 to 1533
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
Nelson Mandela Image

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and ph...

Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to ...

Tuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921
1783 Calabrian earthquakes

The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Cal...

Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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