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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
A painting dedicated to the founders of Black History Month, the Black United Students at Kent State University, by Ernie Pryor

Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known...

Feb, 1969 to Present
Scythian comb
Scythian

The Scythians Saka, Sakae, Iskuzai, or Askuzai, were an ancient nomadic people of Eurasia, inhabitin...

1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
Bosnian War

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina betwee...

Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
Palace of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the s...

Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
Borgo San Lorenzo monument to Fido
Fido (dog)

Fido (1941 – June 9, 1958) was an Italian dog that came to public attention in 1943 because of his d...

1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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
Carlos the Jackal Image

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan terro...

Wednesday Oct 12, 1949 to Present
Oculus Rift

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from t...

1838 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
Pablo Escobar Image

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (1 December 1949 – 2 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narco...

Thursday Dec 1, 1949 to Thursday Dec 2, 1993
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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between ...

1941 to 1945
AirPods
Airpods

AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple. They were first released on September 7, 2...

Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
Iran-Iraq War Image

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
David Cameron Image
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
Giannis Antetokounmpo

Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee ...

Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
Virus Microscope Infection

SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir....

Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitat...

Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
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
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The German revolutions of 1848–1849, the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution...

1848 to 1849
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
Etruscan mother and child

The Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly w...

900 BC to 27 BC
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
Lucky Luciano Image
Lucky Luciano

Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania in November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was an infl...

Wednesday Nov 24, 1897 to Friday Jan 26, 1962
The Hillsborough Memorial

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during an association football match at Hillsborou...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
Dollar Tree
Dollar Tree

Dollar Tree, formerly known as Only $1.00, is an American multi-price-point chain of discount variet...

1986 to Present
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
Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, and author. In the 19...

Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
Resignation of the non-Communist ministers in February 1948

The 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état was an event late that February in which the Communist Party of Cz...

Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to ...

Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
Statue of Waghya at Raigad Fort
Waghya

Waghya, (meaning tiger in Marathi), was a mixed-breed pet dog of Maratha king Shivaji Maharaj, known...

1670s to 1680
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
Lacoste logo Image
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
Marilyn Monroe Image

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic "blonde bombshel...

Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
Samsung wordmark (Logo) - image
Samsung

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It compr...

Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
Marc O'leary

Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated b...

Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
Assyrian Empire
Assyria

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

2500 BC to 609 BC
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
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1

The unification of Italy was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the con...

1815 to 1871
Kingdom of Pergamon

The Attalid dynasty or the Kingdom of Pergamon ​was a Hellenistic Greek dynasty that ruled much of A...

282 BC to 133 BC
Brexit
Brexit

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
Flag of Christmas Island

The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the s...

Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Cinnabon logo Image
Cinnabon

Cinnabon is an American chain of baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in areas with high pe...

Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
Theresa May
Theresa May

Theresa Mary May MP (born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the U...

Sunday Sep 30, 1956 to Present
Sky Petroleum advertisement, Garage and Motor Agent magazine, 7 July 1973

The 1973 oil crisis or first oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization o...

1973 to 1979
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person t...

Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
The logo of Adidas with the three stripes - image
Adidas

Adidas AG is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that...

Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights a...

1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

Ibrahim Pasha was a general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and un...

1789 to 1848
Pope John Paul II Image

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
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
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey

H.E. The Right Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican po...

Wednesday Aug 17, 1887 to Monday Jun 10, 1940
Putin Image

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

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Greenland

The Denmark expedition, also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, was an ...

Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
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Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general te...

1940s to Present
A jack-o'-lantern, one of the symbols of Halloween
Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhallo...

1745 to Present
Marvel Studios

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film studio ...

Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 to Present
Battle during the Second Crusade
Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Lat...

1095 to 1291
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
All Giza Pyramids in one shot
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of th...

32nd Century BC to 332 BC
1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake

The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on June 21 at 00:30:14 local time in northern Iran. The s...

Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is the collective name of a series of fortification systems generally built ...

220s BC to Present
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Image

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence move...

Saturday Oct 2, 1869 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
Certosa di Pavia
Huns

The Huns were nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the...

4th Century to 469
Salvador Dali Image
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
Nintendo Image
Nintendo

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

Saturday Sep 23, 1989 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
Mobile Nokia 1011
Mobile Phones

While the transmission of speech by radio has a long history, the first devices that were wireless, ...

Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Red Dog statue

Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) was a kelpie/cattle dog cross that was well known for his trave...

1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
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
Raúl Castro Image
Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician who is currently serving as the First Secretary of the...

Wednesday Jun 3, 1931 to Present
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
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Viet...

Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
George Weah in Milan AC 1996 - image
George Weah

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

Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2...

Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman, politician, c...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
Gary Ridgway
Gary Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initia...

Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in Western Asia, during the Hellenistic Period, that existed f...

312 BC to 63 BC
Facebook Image

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Men...

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
Albrecht Kossel

Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of gene...

Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
Java

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

Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
Chris Gardner and his Son

Christopher Jarrett Medina Gardner was born to Chris Gardner and Jackie Medina, on 28 January 1981. ...

Wednesday Jan 28, 1981 to Present
BMW logo
BMW

BMW is a German multinational company which produces automobiles and motorcycles. The company was fo...

Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
Eminem
Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem, is an American r...

Tuesday Oct 17, 1972 to Present
YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three f...

Monday Feb 14, 2005 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
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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Meditation

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the ...

5th Millenium BC to Present
Ellie Goulding

Elena Jane Goulding (30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. Her career began when sh...

Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 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
Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a lea...

Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
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
Nuclear power
Nuclear Power

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

1943 to Present
Impeachment of Bill Clinton

The impeachment of Bill Clinton was initiated on October 8, 1998, when the United States House of Re...

Saturday Dec 19, 1998 to Friday Feb 12, 1999
A laser beam used for welding
Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimula...

1960 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
Microsoft Corporation current (2019) logo
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, ...

Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
Che Guevara Image
Che Guevara

Was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military t...

Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
Papa John's Pizza logo Image

Papa John's Pizza is an American pizza restaurant franchise. It runs the fourth largest pizza delive...

Thursday Oct 2, 1884 to Present
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