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Gold Room Bretton Woods Participating Nations Display Case - Bretton Woods Conference

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
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
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USA civil war

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confede...

Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
Putin Image

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

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Statue of Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby (May 4, 1855 – January 14, 1872) was a Skye Terrier who became known in 19th-centur...

Friday May 4, 1855 to Sunday Jan 14, 1872
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Internet

The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts to interconnect computer networks that aro...

1950s 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
Java

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

Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

Monday Jun 4, 1883 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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
Heysel plan

The Heysel Stadium Events occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach b...

Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
First Chechen War (A Chechen fighter stands near the government palace building during a short lull in fighting in Grozny, Chechnya) Image

The First Chechen War, also known as the First Chechen Сampaign, First Russian-Chechen war, or offic...

Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

The Ptolemaic Kingdom was an Ancient Greek state based in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period. It wa...

305 BC to 30 BC
Symbian OS logo Image
Symbian OS

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

1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
Ciro Immobile Image
Ciro Immobile

Ciro Immobile is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Lazio an...

Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
Chichen Itza piramid in México
Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period....

5th Century to 15th Century
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
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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, musician, ...

Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
A three-dimensional printer - 3D printing
3D printing

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD...

1986 to Present
Jackie Chan Cannes 2012
Jackie Chan

Chan Kong-sang born 7 April 1954 known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kongese martial arti...

Wednesday Apr 7, 1954 to Present
Mikhail Gorbachev Image

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The e...

Monday Mar 2, 1931 to Present
Atlantic Charter

The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goal...

Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
1997 Asian financial crisis

The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia and South...

Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
Logo of the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congre...

Thursday Apr 24, 1800 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
Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuati...

395 to 1453
Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 40...

Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
Queen Elizabeth II at NASA

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later Kin...

Wednesday Apr 21, 1926 to Present
Demolished vehicles line Highway 80, also known as the "Highway of Death", the route fleeing Iraqi forces took as they retreated fom Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm Image
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
Yersinia pestis
Plague

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, wea...

14th Century 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
AirPods
Airpods

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

Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
Photograph taken showing the body of Will Brown after being burned by a white lynch mob - Red Summer
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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Kroger

The Kroger Company, is an American retail company founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, O...

1883 to Present
Cover, first serial edition of 1849 - David Copperfield

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal His...

1850 to Present
United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international pea...

Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
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
Second Sino-Japanese War (Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937) Image

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China ...

Wednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Oppo

Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd, commonly referred to as OPPO, is a Chinese cons...

2001 to Present
Korean War Image
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
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
Oculus
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Oculus is a brand of Facebook Technologies, LLC (formerly known as Oculus VR, LLC), a subsidiary of ...

Jul, 2012 to Present
Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah

Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Eg...

Monday Jun 15, 1992 to Present
Zinedine Zidane - image

Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French former professional footba...

Friday Jun 23, 1972 to Present
Current Bhutan flag

The national flag of Bhutan is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features a dragon fro...

1949 to Present
NATO flag

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernme...

Monday Apr 4, 1949 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
Louis Armstrong Image

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an A...

Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
Diving horse
Diving horse

A diving horse is an attraction that was popular in the mid-1880s, in which a horse would dive into ...

1881 to 1993
Coverture
Coverture

Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's lega...

13th Century to 1966
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
Theodore Kaczynski
Ted Kaczynski

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former m...

Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
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MacOS

MacOS is a series of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. si...

1985 to 2019
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the Unit...

1703 to Present
Asia Minor map

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

1268 to 1268
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
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
Plane Crashes Images

The air planes accidents happened in the twentieth century....

Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
Chumlee
Chumlee

Austin Lee Russell (born September 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Chumlee, is an American ...

Wednesday Sep 8, 1982 to Present
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
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
First Sino-Japanese War Image

The First Sino-Japanese War, also known as the Chino-Japanese War, was fought between China and Japa...

Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
Hurricane Katrina Image

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on...

Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
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Frank Fritz

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

Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Image

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years. He was the fou...

Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
Harald V Image
Harald V

Harald V is the King of Norway, having ascended to the throne upon the death of his father King Olav...

Sunday Feb 21, 1937 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
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
disasters

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

Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
(1905 Russian Revolution) A train overturned by striking workers at the main railway depot in Tiflis

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through va...

Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
Mamluk lancers
Mamluks

The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz that established itse...

1250 to 1517
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
1935 Quetta earthquake

The 1935 Quetta earthquake occurred on 31 May between 2:33 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, Br...

Friday May 31, 1935 to Friday May 31, 1935
Logo of Amazon
Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington. Amaz...

Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish an...

Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
J.F.Kennedy Image

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
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
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
Andrew Yang Image
Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, entrepren...

Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
3D medical animation corona virus Image

Corona-viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus...

Dec, 2019 to Present
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
Orderly repatriation of Argentine army POWs 1982
Falklands War

The Falklands War was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over...

Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
Chernobylreactor

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a closed nuclear power plant near the abandoned city of Pripyat...

Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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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World War 1

World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, also known as the First World War or the Great War, wa...

Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
Ancient China
Ancient China

This is a timeline of Ancient Chinese dynasties, comprising important legal and territorial changes ...

21st Century BC to 221 BC
BMW logo
BMW

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

Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 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
Theodelinda married Agilulf

The Kingdom of the Lombards also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of Italy, was an ea...

568 to 774
Richard Branson

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

Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
Vodafone logo
Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office is l...

Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
Max Planck
Max Planck

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
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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
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and phila...

Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name, The Rock, is an American-Can...

Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
World War II
World War II

World War II (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), also known as Second World War, was a global war that ...

Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
Zorig Memorial in Ulan-Bator

The Mongolian Revolution of 1990 was a democratic peaceful revolution that started with demonstratio...

Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
Kosovo War Image
Kosovo War

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started in late February 1998 and lasted until 1...

Sunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabet...

Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and philanthropist who served...

Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
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