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Sunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Friday Feb 14, 1913 to Friday Jul 30, 1982
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Monday Oct 11, 1965 to Present
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Thursday Jan 1, 1615 to Present
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Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991
Igor Stravinsky

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Saturday Jun 17, 1882 to Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
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1953 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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1961 to 1989
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

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Tuesday May 2, 1972 to Present
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32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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1941 to Monday Jun 9, 1958
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Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
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The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 3...

Tuesday Apr 16, 1867 to Friday Jan 30, 1948
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Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
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Saturday Nov 5, 1988 to Present
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

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Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
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Wednesday Feb 22, 1905 to Sunday Jun 16, 1907
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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Monday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969
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1789 to 1848
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Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
Nicaraguan Revolution

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Sunday Jan 1, 1961 to Monday Jan 1, 1990
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Thursday Apr 1, 1976 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
United Nations

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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
Vladimir Lenin

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Friday Apr 22, 1870 to Monday Jan 21, 1924
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Saturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present
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Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
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Wednesday Nov 13, 1918 to Sunday Aug 3, 1919
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Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
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Sunday Sep 26, 1976 to Present
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Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
Buckingham Palace

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1703 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 to Present
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Thursday Sep 17, 1908 to Present
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Saturday Mar 30, 1968 to Present
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1200 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
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Saturday Jan 25, 1964 to Present
Aaron Hernandez Image

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
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Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
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1016 to Present
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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May, 1969 to 1970
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Monday Dec 17, 1962 to Wednesday Aug 29, 2007
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Tuesday Feb 2, 1999 to Present
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1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
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Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
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1990s to Wednesday Jan 1, 2014
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Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
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69 BC to Saturday Aug 10, 30 BC
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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
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Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmo...

Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
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Saturday Jan 1, 1955 to Sunday Jan 1, 1967
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
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Ente...

Saturday Nov 11, 2006 to Present
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Mar, 2009 to Present
Elizabeth Blackwell

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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
Albrecht Kossel

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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
1970 Ancash earthquake

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Sunday May 31, 1970 to Sunday May 31, 1970
Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and politician...

Sunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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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
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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
Sky Petroleum advertisement, Garage and Motor Agent magazine, 7 July 1973

The 1973 oil crisis or first oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization o...

1973 to 1979
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The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant and Hejaz that established itse...

1250 to 1517
 Dahomey Amazons

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

1645 to Nov, 1979
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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
Putin Image

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

Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
Bitcoin
Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name ...

Monday Aug 18, 2008 to Present
(Second Chechen War) A Russian Mi-8 helicopter shot down by Chechen fighters near the Chechen capital, Grozny

Second Chechen War, also known as the Second Chechen Сampaign or officially Counter-terrorist operat...

Thursday Aug 26, 1999 to Sunday Apr 30, 2000
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United Sta...

Thursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994
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
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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between ...

1941 to 1945
Christine Lagarde

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician, businessperson, and lawyer serving as Pre...

Sunday Jan 1, 1956 to Present
disasters

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

Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
Nuclear power
Nuclear Power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which mo...

1943 to Present
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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, ...

Friday Apr 4, 1975 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
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestand...

Wednesday Jan 5, 1172 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
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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Huns

The Huns were nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the...

4th Century to 469
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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
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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
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