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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
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Wednesday Jan 1, 1992 to Monday Dec 31, 2018
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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
Canon Camera
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4th Century to Present
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Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
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Friday May 12, 1865 to Thursday May 11, 1865
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1961 to 1989
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Friday Apr 23, 1858 to Saturday Oct 4, 1947
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Thursday Jul 10, 1856 to Thursday Jan 7, 1943
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Jun, 1976 to Present
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Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Friday Jun 7, 1940 to Wednesday Dec 30, 2020
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Monday Aug 29, 1842 to Present
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Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
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Sunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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19th Century BC to 539 BC
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Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
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Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
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Monday May 14, 1984 to Present
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Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
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1952 to Present
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Saturday Jan 7, 1978 to Sunday Feb 11, 1979
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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Monday Jun 21, 1982 to Present
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Wednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989
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2500 BC to 609 BC
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Saturday Jul 1, 1961 to Sunday Aug 31, 1997
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Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
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Thursday Aug 14, 1941 to Present
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1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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Wednesday Aug 6, 1806 to Wednesday Jan 18, 1871
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Wednesday Nov 14, 2001 to Present
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1200 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
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Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
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Saturday Jul 17, 1954 to Present
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
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Thursday Jun 21, 1990 to Thursday Jun 21, 1990
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
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Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
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1940s to Present
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Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
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Saturday Oct 16, 1886 to Saturday Dec 1, 1973
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Saturday Apr 20, 1889 to Monday Apr 30, 1945
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
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Monday Apr 4, 1949 to Present
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Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
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Wednesday Nov 20, 1985 to Present
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Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
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1865 to Present
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Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
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1960 to Present
Francesco Totti

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Monday Sep 27, 1976 to Present
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1110s BC to 730s BC
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1095 to 1291
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Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
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1789 to 1848
Certosa di Pavia
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4th Century to 469
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Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
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Friday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006
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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
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Saturday Jul 1, 1944 to Present
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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1016 to Present
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Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
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1986 to Present
King Juan Carlos Image
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Wednesday Jan 5, 1938 to Present
Martial arts
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4th Millenium BC to Present
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Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
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Monday Jun 10, 2019 to Sunday Apr 8, 1973
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

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1929 to 1933
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

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2000s BC to 1697
British army in Brunei
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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
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Andrew Yang

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Sunday Jan 12, 1975 to Present
Bay of Pigs Invasion Image

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Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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Harald V

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Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
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Juneteenth

Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberati...

Monday Sep 22, 1862 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
George Washington

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Friday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779
Johan Cruyff
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Friday Apr 25, 1947 to Thursday Mar 24, 2016
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence o...

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 1988

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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Sunday Jun 4, 1989
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Thursday Apr 1, 1976 to Present
World War II
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Friday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945
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Sunday Feb 20, 2005 to Friday May 24, 2013
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Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French former professional footba...

Friday Jun 23, 1972 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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Friday Jan 1, 1802 to Present
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