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Apr, 1452 to Friday May 2, 1519
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Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
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Tuesday Jun 16, 1903 to Present
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Saturday Oct 1, 1966 to Present
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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Tuesday Dec 26, 1893 to Thursday Sep 9, 1976
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Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
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Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
Mona Lisa
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1500s to 1517
Carlos Slim
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Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
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Monday Jun 12, 1972 to Present
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The e...

Monday Mar 2, 1931 to Present
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
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26th Century BC to 10th Century
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Saturday Dec 1, 1962 to Saturday Nov 3, 1990
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1st Millenium BC to 1st Millenium
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Sunday Nov 24, 1946 to Tuesday Jan 24, 1989
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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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1952 to Present
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Saturday Oct 16, 1886 to Saturday Dec 1, 1973
Oculus Rift

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1838 to Present
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Feb, 1969 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 4, 1985 to Present
Black Friday
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1952 to Present
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Friday Mar 27, 1936 to Thursday Mar 26, 1936
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Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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1953 to Present
Labor Day
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1856 to Present
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1960 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 8, 1971 to Present
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1865 to Present
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799 to 1806
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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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31st Century BC to 4th Century BC
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Monday May 6, 1918 to Tuesday Nov 2, 2004
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Tuesday Jan 1, 2008 to Saturday Dec 31, 2011
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Friday Dec 13, 115 to Present
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1946 to Present
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Sunday Sep 17, 1950 to Present
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Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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Sunday Aug 4, 1901 to Tuesday Jul 6, 1971
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Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
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Friday Jan 1, 1802 to Present
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Tuesday Oct 13, 1925 to Monday Apr 8, 2013
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Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
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Friday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016
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Thursday Aug 21, 1930 to Friday Feb 15, 2002
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Tuesday Jul 5, 1994 to Present
Carter G. Woodson

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Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Saturday Oct 31, 1964 to Present
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Saturday Dec 3, 1994 to Present
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
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Friday Nov 8, 1895 to Present
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Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 to Present
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1985 to 2019
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Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
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Monday Nov 18, 1940 to Friday Jan 10, 2020
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Monday Mar 11, 1957 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
Igor Stravinsky

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Saturday Jun 17, 1882 to Tuesday Apr 6, 1971
Library of Alexandria

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280s BC to 642
Slobodan Milošević Image

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Wednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006
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Monday Dec 16, 2013 to Present
Heinrich Himmler

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Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
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Thursday Aug 2, 1923 to Wednesday Sep 28, 2016
Mussolini biografia

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Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
Rajputana 1909

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May, 1969 to 1970
Gustav Stresemann

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Tuesday May 10, 1887 to Thursday Oct 3, 1929
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Thursday Jun 23, 2005 to Present
Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
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Monday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995
Bill Gates Image
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Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
Justin Trudeau Image

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd an...

Saturday Dec 25, 1971 to Present
Flag of the United States

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Saturday Jun 14, 1777 to Present
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
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist...

Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
The Great Wall of China

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220s BC to Present
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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, musician, ...

Wednesday Jan 17, 1962 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
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Saturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962
Battle at Soufflot barricades at Rue Soufflot

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime ...

Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
Flag of Repubblica Cispadana1

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1815 to 1871
Che Guevara Image
Che Guevara

Was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military t...

Thursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967
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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
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

Ibrahim Pasha was a general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and un...

1789 to 1848
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Meditation

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5th Millenium BC to Present
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and philanthropist who served...

Wednesday Oct 1, 1924 to Present
Ellie Goulding

Elena Jane Goulding (30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. Her career began when sh...

Tuesday Dec 30, 1986 to Present
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
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
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
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire

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27 BC to 395
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

Sooronbay Sharipovich Jeenbekov is a Kyrgyz politician, and the President of Kyrgyzstan. He official...

Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
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
Hot Dog
Hot Dog

The hot dog (also spelled hotdog) is a grilled or steamed sausage sandwich where the sausage is serv...

1200 to Present
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India natio...

Saturday Nov 5, 1988 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
Halimah Yacob
Halimah Yacob

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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
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