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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
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
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Aaron Josef Hernandez (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was a convicted murderer and American foot...

Monday Nov 6, 1989 to Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
X-ray
X-ray

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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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Memorial day

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Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Josip Broz Tito Image

Josip Broz (7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary...

Saturday May 7, 1892 to Sunday May 4, 1980
Ebola virus (SEM)

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Jun, 1976 to Present
Dollar Tree
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1986 to Present
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Saturday Apr 13, 1963 to Present
Chris Kyle Image

Christopher Scott Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL sniper. He served four tours in the Iraq War an...

Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
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
Bernard Arnault

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Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
Assyrian Empire
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2500 BC to 609 BC
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

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305 BC to 30 BC
Armenian Genocide

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1914 to 1923
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Nikola Tesla
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Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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1750 BC to 1180s BC
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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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2600 BC to Present
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
Yersinia pestis
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14th Century to Present
Mehan Markle Image

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Tuesday Aug 4, 1981 to Present
PlayStation Network

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Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
Justin Trudeau Image

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Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
Seleucid Empire

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312 BC to 63 BC
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1745 to Present
Johan Cruyff
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Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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Tuesday Feb 20, 1990 to Present
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A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear b...

Monday Aug 6, 1945 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
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Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
Bart Millard
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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
The logo for Zoom Video Communications

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Thursday Apr 21, 2011 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
Zlatan Ibrahimović - image

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Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
Temple of Hephaestus - Athens, Greece - Ancient Greece

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9th Century BC to 146 BC
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Friday May 22, 1942 to Feb, 2022
Amancio Ortega Portrait

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Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
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1536 to Present
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
International Monetary Fund Headquarters

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Thursday Dec 27, 1945 to Present
United Nations

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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
Papa John's Pizza logo Image

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Thursday Oct 2, 1884 to Present
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
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
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
League of Legends logo

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Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
Marilyn Monroe Image

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Tuesday Jun 1, 1926 to Saturday Aug 4, 1962
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Meditation

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5th Millenium BC 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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4th Millenium BC to Present
Willis Carrier Image

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Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
Oliver Wright and Wilbur Wright Image

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Tuesday Apr 16, 1867 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Oct, 2003 to Present
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Harald V

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Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
Flag of Christmas Island

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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 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
Martin Luther King Image

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Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
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
Bill Gates Image
Bill Gates

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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the...

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
Prince Harry Image
Prince Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charl...

Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical opera...

Sunday Jan 1, 1888 to Present
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
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American politician and soldier w...

Tuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969
German Empire

The unification of Germany into the German Empire, a Prussian-dominated nation state with federal fe...

Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
Mendeleev

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating...

Saturday Feb 8, 1834 to Saturday Feb 2, 1907
Angelina Jolie

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

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Hachiko Image
Hachikō

Hachikō (November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935) was a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his remarkable l...

Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
Berlin Wall Image
Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from...

1961 to 1989
Bob Marley Image
Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the pioneers o...

Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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
Shakira Image
Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist...

Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 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
Plane Crashes Images

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

Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
Hungarian flag with the 1949–1956 communist emblem cut out

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the...

Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Andrew Yang Image
Andrew Yang

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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
Oculus Rift

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

1838 to Present
Slobodan Milošević Image

Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the President of Serbia (ori...

Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
Invasion of Ukraine by Russia

On 24 February 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine, in a major escalation of the Russo...

Thursday Feb 24, 2022 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
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
Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first ...

Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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
DC Comics logo
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
Uber logo
Uber

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

Mar, 2009 to Present
Depiction of the earthquake in an engraving from 1696, possibly showing Catania - 1693 Sicily earthquake

The 1693 Sicily earthquake struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, Calabria, and Malta on Januar...

Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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
Google LLC
Google LLC

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related serv...

Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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
Angela Merkel Image
Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She serve...

Saturday Jul 17, 1954 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
Banking hacks image

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
MOTHER'S DAY
Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bon...

Wednesday Jan 1, 1908 to Present
IOS Logo Image
iOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusivel...

2005 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
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
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