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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kin...

Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, m...

Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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The Iran–Iraq War began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and ended on 20 August 1988, w...

Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
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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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The Weimar Republic, officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1...

1919 to 1933
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The hot dog (also spelled hotdog) is a grilled or steamed sausage sandwich where the sausage is serv...

1200 to Present
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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pionee...

Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
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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
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligen...

Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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Sofia Kenin

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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and music...

Saturday Mar 31, 1685 to Tuesday Jul 28, 1750
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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The Holocaust

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1941 to 1945
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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
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
Rescue equipment in Tham Luang entrance chamber

In June and July 2018, a junior association football team was rescued from the Tham Luang Nang Non c...

Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as t...

Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
April Fools' Day

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Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
Hirohito
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Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning f...

Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Berlin Wall

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

1961 to 1989
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
Max Planck
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Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta wo...

Friday Apr 23, 1858 to Saturday Oct 4, 1947
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American film actor and politician who...

Monday Feb 6, 1911 to Saturday Jun 5, 2004
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1881 to 1993
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The German revolutions of 1848–1849, the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution...

1848 to 1849
Qasem Soleimani

Qasem Soleimani (11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian Major General in the Islamic Revolut...

Monday Mar 11, 1957 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshel...

Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
Bernard Arnault

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

Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
Bitcoin
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Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
Kevin Hart
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Kevin Darnell Hart is an American stand-up comedian and actor....

Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
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Symbian OS

Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphon...

1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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The unification of Italy was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the con...

1815 to 1871
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

On 24 February 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine, in a major escalation of the Russo...

Thursday Feb 24, 2022 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
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff OON (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football playe...

Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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
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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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The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe that d...

799 to 1806
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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George Weah

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

Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
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Sepp Blatter

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (Fr...

Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
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Gary Webb

Gary Stephen Webb was an American investigative journalist. He began his career working for newspape...

Thursday Aug 31, 1995 to Friday Dec 10, 2004
Black Friday
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Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, whi...

1952 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
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Korean War

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of Chin...

Sunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953
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Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan terro...

Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
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Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services cor...

Monday Sep 1, 1958 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
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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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Xerox

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Wednesday Apr 18, 1906 to Present
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician who was the 45th president of the U...

Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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Lacoste

Lacoste is a French company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste and André Gillier. It sel...

Sunday Jan 1, 1933 to Present
Juan Trippe
Juan Trippe

Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan A...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1899 to Friday Apr 3, 1981
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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
Coverture
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13th Century to 1966
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and...

Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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Popeyes

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., also known as Popeyes and formerly named Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits...

Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time (02:04:07 UTC) on 25 December. With an e...

Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
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Assyria

Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near ...

2500 BC to 609 BC
The World Bank
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The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides interest-free loans and grant...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
Mark Zuckerburg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist...

Monday May 14, 1984 to Present
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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
Brexit
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Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit") is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the...

Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
Prime minister David Ben-Gurion Image

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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Windows

Microsoft Windows, commonly referred to as Windows, is a group of several proprietary graphical oper...

Wednesday Nov 20, 1985 to Present
Doss Desmond US Army Image

Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served...

Friday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006
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Corona-viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus...

Dec, 2019 to Present
 Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

1645 to Nov, 1979
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
Nuclear power
Nuclear Power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which mo...

1943 to Present
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Bactria

Bactria was an ancient region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain r...

26th Century BC to 10th Century
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
disasters

A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage or ...

Friday Dec 13, 115 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
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The Cilicia earthquake occurred northeast of the city of Adana in 1268. Over 60,000 people perished ...

1268 to 1268
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

is a French billionaire heiress and an author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish-Christian re...

Friday Jul 10, 1953 to Present
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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
Java

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

Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the fi...

Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
Elon Musk
Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate, industrial designer, and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CT...

Monday Jun 28, 1971 to Present
Lothar Meyer
Lothar Meyer

Julius Lothar Meyer (19 August 1830 – 11 April 1895) was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneer...

Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
Library of Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant li...

280s BC to 642
Chocolate
Chocolate

Chocolate is a preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds that are made in the form of a liquid, ...

15th Century BC 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
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
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

Sunday Jan 12, 1964 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
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

Qaboos bin Said Al Said (18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was the Sultan of Oman from 23 July 197...

Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a c...

1865 to Present
Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Ernst Stresemann (10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman who served as Chancell...

Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
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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
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Red Summer

Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacis...

Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
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Memorial day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring the military per...

Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as...

Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Celine Dion
Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled voc...

Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
Putin Image

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

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Anyanya Flag

The First Sudanese Civil War (also known as the Anyanya Rebellion or Anyanya I, after the name of th...

Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
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
Titanic
Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after the sh...

Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
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