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Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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1st Century to Present
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1703 to Present
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Jul, 2012 to Present
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1856 to Present
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Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
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Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
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Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
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Thursday Aug 26, 1999 to Sunday Apr 30, 2000
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Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
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Friday May 31, 1935 to Friday May 31, 1935
Flag of the United States

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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
Yasunari Kawabata

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Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
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1986 to Present
Albert Einstein

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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
Christine Lagarde

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Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
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1973 to 1979
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Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
Diving horse
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1881 to 1993
Martin Bormann

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Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
Richard Nixon
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Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
Patch Adams
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Greenland

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Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
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Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
Ottoman Empire Coat of arms

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1299 to Monday Mar 3, 1924
NATO flag

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Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
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Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
Zara
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1975 to Present
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Monday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962
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Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
Prince Charles Image

Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest son of Queen Eliza...

Sunday Nov 14, 1948 to Present
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Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
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1438 to 1533
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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
PlayStation Network

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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
Ho Chi Minh
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

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Thursday Feb 24, 2022 to Present
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Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Wednesday Oct 23, 1940 to Present
Abraham Lincoln

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Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
Certosa di Pavia
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4th Century to 469
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Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
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Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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1815 to 1871
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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
Chernobylreactor

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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
Irish War of Independence

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Tuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921
Frederick Douglass

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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
Java

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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
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Sunday Jan 1, 1933 to Present
AirPods
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
A Colombian marine on a field training exercise

The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
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
Mark Zuckerburg

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

Monday May 14, 1984 to Present
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named ...

Sunday Mar 31, 1889 to Present
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Samsung

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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until ...

Wednesday Jul 28, 1954 to Tuesday Mar 5, 2013
The Headquarters of the UNCTAD are located at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as an interg...

Wednesday Dec 30, 1964 to Present
Princess Diana Image

Was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and th...

Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
Schindler, Oskar Image

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi...

Tuesday Apr 28, 1908 to Wednesday Oct 9, 1974
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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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Internet

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1950s 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
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Tesla, Inc.

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Tuesday Jul 1, 2003 to Present
Nintendo Image
Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquart...

Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
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Ciro Immobile

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Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
September 11 attacks

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Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
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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
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
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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, ...

Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
Map of conflict zones in Myanmar (Burma) - image

The Conflict in Myanmar is a series of primarily ethnic conflicts within Myanmar that began shortly ...

Friday Apr 2, 1948 to Present
Martial arts
Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as...

4th Millenium BC to Present
Michael Ballack

Michael Ballack is a retired German footballer. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of ...

Sunday Sep 26, 1976 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
Amancio Ortega Portrait

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder a...

Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

Sooronbay Sharipovich Jeenbekov is a Kyrgyz politician, and the President of Kyrgyzstan. He official...

Sunday Nov 16, 1958 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
Library of Alexandria

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

280s BC to 642
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami

The 1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the S...

Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
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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
Library
Libraries

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC 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
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Ru...

Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. With a car...

Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
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Frank Fritz

An actor, known for American Pickers, born October 11, 1965....

Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident were stu...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

Jamal Ja'far Muhammad Ali Al Ibrahim (1 July 1954 – 3 January 2020), known by the kunya Abu Mahdi al...

Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
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
Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accola...

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
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