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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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1950s to Present
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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
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4th Millenium BC to Present
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Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
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Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is w...

Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
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1789 to 1848
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Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
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Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
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Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young...

Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
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Friday Jun 28, 1940 to Present
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
Angelina Jolie

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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
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14th Century to Present
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
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Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
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568 to 774
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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
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494 to Present
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1645 to Nov, 1979
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Monday Mar 11, 1957 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
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Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
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Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
Jimmy Carter
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Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
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Monday Feb 6, 1911 to Saturday Jun 5, 2004
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1955 to Present
Ruhollah Khomeini

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Wednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989
Michael Ballack

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Sunday Sep 26, 1976 to Present
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Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
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Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
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Monday Jun 2, 1986 to Present
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Sunday Dec 12, 1915 to Thursday May 14, 1998
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Sunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999
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Tuesday Dec 7, 1993 to Present
Shaquille O'Neal

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Monday Mar 6, 1972 to Present
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Monday Aug 6, 1945 to Present
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1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
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Wednesday May 27, 1964 to Present
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1st Century to Present
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1952 to Present
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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1908 to Present
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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
Lothar Meyer
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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Monday Jun 10, 2019 to Sunday Apr 8, 1973
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Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
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Wednesday May 29, 1985 to Wednesday May 29, 1985
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Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
Jimmy Hoffa
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
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Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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509 BC to 27 BC
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
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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
New York Stock Exchange

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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, p...

Friday Oct 28, 1955 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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Tuesday Apr 19, 1910 to Present
The logo for Zoom Video Communications

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (stylized as zoom or simply Zoom) is an American communications tech...

Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
Halimah Yacob
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Halimah binti Yacob is a Singaporean politician who is the current President of Singapore. Formerly ...

Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
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The Communist insurgency in Sarawak occurred in Malaysia from 1962 to 1990, and involved the North K...

Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
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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The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference...

Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Friday Jul 21, 1944
Albert Einstein

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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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OnePlus

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Monday Dec 16, 2013 to Present
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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Oct, 2003 to Present
Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded...

Sunday Jun 11, 1899 to Sunday Apr 16, 1972
Marie Curie
Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pione...

Thursday Nov 7, 1867 to Wednesday Jul 4, 1934
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
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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin born in 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary a...

Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
Caracas (Venezuela), March 5, 2014. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, participated in the commemoration of the death of Commander Hugo Chávez Image

The Bolivarian Revolution is a political process in Venezuela that was led by Venezuelan President H...

Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk

Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder,...

Sunday May 12, 1968 to Present
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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
Library of Alexandria

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

280s BC to 642
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Uber

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American multinational ride-hailing company o...

Mar, 2009 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
Franklin Roosevelt Image

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR...

Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
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
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
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
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
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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Again...

Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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
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
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Amazon

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

Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 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
April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on April ...

Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
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