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Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
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Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
Elizabeth Blackwell

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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
World War II
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
Dwayne Johnson

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Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
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Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
Ronald Reagan
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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
Current Bhutan flag

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1949 to Present
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

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305 BC to 30 BC
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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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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
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Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhallo...

1745 to Present
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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
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2018 to 2025
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Often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president o...

Tuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963
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Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
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World War 1

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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
Martin Luther King Image

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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
Slobodan Milošević Image

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Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
Titanic
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Wednesday Jul 29, 1908 to Sunday Apr 14, 1912
Angelina Jolie

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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
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1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
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Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
Justin Trudeau Image

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Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
Rescue equipment in Tham Luang entrance chamber

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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
Charles de Gaulle

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Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
Chernobylreactor

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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
King Edward VIII
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Edward VIII later Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick Davi...

Saturday Jun 23, 1894 to Sunday May 28, 1972
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Tuesday May 19, 1925 to Sunday Feb 21, 1965
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

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1929 to 1933
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Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
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Sunday Jun 23, 1912 to Monday Jun 7, 1954
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Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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2005 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
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Wednesday Nov 13, 1918 to Sunday Aug 3, 1919
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Sunday Sep 24, 1905 to Monday Nov 1, 1993
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27 BC to 395
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5th Millenium BC to Present
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1960 to Present
Louis Armstrong Image

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Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
Aaron Hernandez Image

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Monday Nov 6, 1989 to Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
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Wednesday Dec 30, 1964 to Present
Gita Gopinath
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Monday Feb 24, 1868
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
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Tuesday Sep 29, 1936 to Present
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Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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1645 to Nov, 1979
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1956 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 19, 1910 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Oculus
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Jul, 2012 to Present
Father's Day
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1908 to Present
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1940s to Present
Kingdom of Pergamon

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282 BC to 133 BC
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Prince Harry

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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit

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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
Rwandan genocide

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Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
Muhammad Yunus

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Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
Patch Adams
Patch Adams

Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author....

Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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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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The unification of Italy was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the con...

1815 to 1871
Chris McCandless Image

Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968– August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexand...

Monday Feb 12, 1968 to Saturday Aug 1, 1992
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1110s BC to 730s BC
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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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
Justinianus I
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Justinian I also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565....

482 to Thursday Nov 14, 565
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 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
Hachiko Image
Hachikō

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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
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Mao Zedong

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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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
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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Gulf War

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Thursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991
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
Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti (born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional footballer who played for...

Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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IKEA

IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, ki...

Wednesday Jul 28, 1943 to Present
Valentine greeting card

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated an...

494 to Present
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous youn...

Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal (born March 6, 1972) is a retired professional American basketball p...

Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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
Hittites
Hittites

The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom i...

1750 BC to 1180s BC
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
Blue Mosque, Tabriz, Iran - 1727 Tabriz earthquake

The 1727 Tabriz earthquake occurred on 18 November with an epicenter near Tabriz in northwest Iran....

Tuesday Nov 18, 1727 to Tuesday Nov 18, 1727
Joe Biden
Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th ...

Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
Reddit
Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registere...

Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely consid...

Saturday Jun 17, 1882 to Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
Giannis Antetokounmpo

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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
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
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
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served...

Sunday Feb 12, 1809 to Saturday Apr 15, 1865
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Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong-un (born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician. He has been Supreme Leader of North ...

Jan, 1982 to Present
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