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2001 to Present
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Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
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Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
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1950s to Present
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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
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1016 to Present
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Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
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Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
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Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
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Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
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Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
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4th Century to Present
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
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Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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Friday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006
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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
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1670s to 1680
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
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1110s BC to 730s BC
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
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1919 to 1933
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Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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1865 to Present
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Monday Jun 4, 1883 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
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Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
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Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 to Present
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
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Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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1961 to 1989
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Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
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Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
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Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Thursday Apr 1, 1976 to Present
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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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13th Century to 1966
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Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
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Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 to Present
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Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
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Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
Richard Branson

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Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
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The Holocaust

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1941 to 1945
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Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
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2600 BC to Present
Alan Turing
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Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
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Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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568 to 774
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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
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Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
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Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
A painting dedicated to the founders of Black History Month, the Black United Students at Kent State University, by Ernie Pryor

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Feb, 1969 to Present
Andrew Yang Image
Andrew Yang

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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
Theodore Roosevelt

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Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 4...

Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United Sta...

Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
Soviet-R-12-nuclear-ballistic missile

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Mis...

Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
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1438 to 1533
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
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Lula da Silva

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Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and so...

Wednesday Dec 16, 1936 to Present
Wordmark of Sony - image

Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato...

Tuesday May 7, 1946 to Present
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
Battle during the Second Crusade
Crusades

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1095 to 1291
Cathedral of St. Helena
Stuart Long

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Friday Jul 26, 1963 to Monday Jun 9, 2014
IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company he...

Friday Jun 16, 1911 to Present
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