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Labor day

Labor Day (Labor Day in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of wor...

1856 to Present
Mass shootings in the United States

Mass shootings are incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence. The precise inc...

Tuesday Sep 6, 1949 to Present
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi

Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both FC Barcelona and the Arge...

Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
Bart Millard
Bart Millard

Bart Marshall Millard (born December 1, 1972) is an American singer and songwriter who is best known...

Friday Dec 1, 1972 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
David Cameron Image
David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kin...

Sunday Oct 9, 1966 to Present
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
Alfred Nobel Image
Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engin...

Monday Oct 21, 1833 to Thursday Dec 10, 1896
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
Alcatraz Island March 1962 Image

The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-secur...

Monday Jun 11, 1962 to Present
Rescue equipment in Tham Luang entrance chamber

In June and July 2018, a junior association football team was rescued from the Tham Luang Nang Non c...

Saturday Jun 23, 2018 to Jul, 2018
Hirohito
Hirohito

Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning f...

Monday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989
Yersinia pestis
Plague

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

14th Century to Present
Osama bin Laden Image
Bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), also rendered Usama bin Ladin,...

Sunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011
Atari logo
Atari, Inc.

Atari is a brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Inte...

Tuesday Jun 27, 1972 to Present
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
Graves at Arlington on Memorial Day Image
Memorial day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring the military per...

Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
US Airways Flight 1549 (N106US) after crashing into the Hudson River Image

US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's ...

Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, con...

Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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
OPPO LOGO 2019 Image
Oppo

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

2001 to Present
Collage of Images From The Vietnam War
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
Best Buy opens its 800th store in Chicago, Illinois
Best Buy

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richf...

Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
Central Park May Image

The Central Park jogger case (When They See Us) was a criminal case in the United States based on th...

Wednesday Apr 19, 1989 to Monday May 1, 1989
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
Rosa Parks Image
Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her ...

Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
Ayman al-Zawahri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is the current leader of al-Qaeda and a current or former member an...

Tuesday Jun 19, 1951 to Present
Armed soldiers stand guard in Sarawak

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
Mamie Till at Emmett's funeral
Mamie Till

Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley was an American educator and activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till...

Wednesday Nov 23, 1921 to Monday Jan 6, 2003
Cristiano Ronaldo

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

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
BMW logo
BMW

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

Tuesday Mar 7, 1916 to Present
New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the F...

Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
Elliot Page
Elliot Page

Elliot Page (born Ellen Grace Philpotts-Page; February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor and producer. H...

Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
Spiez Castle
Spiez Castle

Spiez Castle is a castle in the municipality of Spiez of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is a Swiss her...

933 to Present
Robin Williams 1996 Image

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Born i...

Saturday Jul 21, 1951 to Monday Aug 11, 2014
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
Xanana Gusmão - image

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, is an East Timorese politician. A former militant, he was the first Presiden...

Thursday Jun 20, 1946 to Present
Akio Morita
Akio Morita

Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka....

Wednesday Jan 26, 1921 to Sunday Oct 3, 1999
 Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

1645 to Nov, 1979
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
2008 Sichuan earthquake

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake also known as the Great Sichuan earthquake or Wenchuan earthquake, occur...

Monday May 12, 2008 to Monday May 12, 2008
Marlon Brando Image
Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. With a car...

Thursday Apr 3, 1924 to Thursday Jul 1, 2004
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
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Ford

Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that has its main headquarter in Dearborn,...

Tuesday Jun 16, 1903 to Present
Marc O'leary

Between 2008 and 2011, a series of rapes in the suburbs around Seattle and Denver were perpetrated b...

Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
Steven Spielberg image

Steven Allan Spielberg is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of th...

Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
Fulton Image
Robert Fulton

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
Cyprus flag

Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities...

Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
Windows darkblue 2012 Image
Windows

Microsoft Windows, commonly referred to as Windows, is a group of several proprietary graphical oper...

Wednesday Nov 20, 1985 to Present
Marco van Basten

Marcel "Marco" van Basten born 31 October 1964) is a Dutch football manager and former professional ...

Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
Mobile Nokia 1011
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
Flag of Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1...

1919 to 1933
LeBron James
LeBron James

LeBron Raymone James Sr. (born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for ...

Saturday Dec 29, 1984 to Present
Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanth...

Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
Library
Libraries

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
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
Kingdom of Pergamon

The Attalid dynasty or the Kingdom of Pergamon ​was a Hellenistic Greek dynasty that ruled much of A...

282 BC to 133 BC
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
League of Legends logo

League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by R...

Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, ...

Monday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965
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
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
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
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
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
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
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895)...

Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who...

Friday Jun 28, 1940 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
Huawei logo - image
Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommuni...

Tuesday Sep 15, 1987 to Monday Sep 14, 1987
Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, ...

Friday Nov 9, 1731 to Sunday Oct 19, 1806
The headquarters of the World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitat...

Sunday Jan 1, 1995 to Present
Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing
Atomic Bomb

A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear b...

Monday Aug 6, 1945 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
Logo of Ikea - image
IKEA

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

Wednesday Jul 28, 1943 to Present
Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer ...

Saturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970
Fidel Castro Image
Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Repub...

Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
Patch Adams
Patch Adams

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

Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
Soviet-R-12-nuclear-ballistic missile

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Mis...

Tuesday Oct 16, 1962 to Monday Oct 29, 1962
Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the le...

Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
Galileo Galilei

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronome...

Saturday Feb 15, 1564 to Wednesday Jan 8, 1642
Windmills
Wind turbine

A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts t...

1st Century to Present
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart

Kevin Darnell Hart is an American stand-up comedian and actor....

Friday Jul 6, 1979 to Present
Facebook Image

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Men...

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
Qaboos bin Said Al Said

Qaboos bin Said Al Said (18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was the Sultan of Oman from 23 July 197...

Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
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
Itzak Stern
Itzak Stern

Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Friday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969
Xanax
Xanax

Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a short-acting benzodiazepine. It is m...

1971 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
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
Mark Zuckerburg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist...

Monday May 14, 1984 to Present
Celine Dion
Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled voc...

Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
Cinnabon logo Image
Cinnabon

Cinnabon is an American chain of baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in areas with high pe...

Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 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
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
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
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was initiated on February 24, 1868, when the United States House o...

Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Monday Feb 24, 1868
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
Virus Microscope Infection

SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir....

Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
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