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Thursday Nov 7, 1867 to Wednesday Jul 4, 1934
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1645 to Nov, 1979
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Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
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509 BC to 27 BC
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Wednesday Nov 24, 1897 to Friday Jan 26, 1962
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Thursday Aug 26, 1999 to Sunday Apr 30, 2000
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Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
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32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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Tuesday Dec 10, 1901 to Present
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Tuesday Jan 3, 1905 to Friday Feb 3, 1961
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Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
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Monday May 28, 1945 to Present
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1973 to 1979
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Saturday Oct 5, 1985 to Present
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Monday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013
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Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
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Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
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Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
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Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
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Monday May 21, 1860 to Thursday Sep 29, 1927
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Saturday Nov 14, 1998 to Present
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Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
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Wednesday Jun 3, 1931 to Present
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1200 to Present
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Friday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939
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Monday Oct 6, 1952 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
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Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
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Saturday Nov 10, 1923 to Friday Mar 8, 1935
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Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
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Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
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Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
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Thursday Jul 28, 1814 to Wednesday Nov 11, 1818
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Friday Mar 2, 1984 to Present
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Friday Sep 16, 1853 to Tuesday Jul 5, 1927
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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Tuesday Jan 2, 1990 to Friday Mar 9, 1990
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Tuesday Jul 18, 1950 to Present
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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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Thursday Nov 14, 1765 to Saturday Feb 25, 1815
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Thursday Sep 5, 1946 to Sunday Nov 24, 1991
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
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Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
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Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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Saturday Feb 15, 1564 to Wednesday Jan 8, 1642
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Sunday Nov 20, 1910 to Friday May 21, 1920
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Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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Wednesday May 11, 1904 to Monday Jan 23, 1989
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395 to 1453
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Saturday Jan 10, 1920 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
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1881 to 1993
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Mar, 1957 to Sunday Dec 29, 1974
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Wednesday Sep 8, 1954 to Present
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Monday Sep 22, 1862 to Present
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Sunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995
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Wednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902
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Wednesday Feb 5, 1783 to Friday Mar 28, 1783
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Saturday Jun 29, 1985 to Present
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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Harald V is the King of Norway, having ascended to the throne upon the death of his father King Olav...

Sunday Feb 21, 1937 to Present
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Thursday Apr 21, 2011 to Present
Frederick Douglass

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Thursday Feb 13, 1817 to Wednesday Feb 20, 1895
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Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
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
Oliver Wright and Wilbur Wright Image

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
Jimmy Carter
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Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Assyrian Empire
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2500 BC to 609 BC
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Beethoven

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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
Flag of Weimar Republic

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1919 to 1933
Giannis Antetokounmpo

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Saturday Aug 3, 1963 to Friday Sep 29, 2017
Mesopotamian lions and flowers decorated the processional street - Ishtar Gate - Babylon
Babylon

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19th Century BC to 539 BC
Marcus Garvey
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Wednesday Aug 17, 1887 to Monday Jun 10, 1940
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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The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time (02:04:07 UTC) on 25 December. With an e...

Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
1997 Asian financial crisis

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Wednesday Jul 2, 1997 to Friday Jan 1, 1999
Chichen Itza piramid in México
Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period....

5th Century to 15th Century
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
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current President of Turkey sin...

Friday Feb 26, 1954 to Present
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
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Image

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the Ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years. He was the fou...

Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial ...

Monday Jan 1, 2007 to Monday Dec 31, 2007
Gary Ridgway
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Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initia...

Friday Feb 18, 1949 to Thursday Feb 21, 2002
Anyanya Flag

The First Sudanese Civil War (also known as the Anyanya Rebellion or Anyanya I, after the name of th...

Thursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972
Facebook Image

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

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
Nelson Mandela Image

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and ph...

Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named ...

Sunday Mar 31, 1889 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
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
Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as...

Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 19...

1929 to 1933
Battle during the Second Crusade
Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Lat...

1095 to 1291
John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

Monday Jun 4, 1883 to Saturday Apr 20, 1946
Bay of Pigs Invasion Image

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligen...

Monday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961
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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