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Friday Dec 1, 1972 to Present
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Friday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982
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32nd Century BC to 332 BC
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509 BC to 27 BC
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Wednesday Jul 28, 1954 to Tuesday Mar 5, 2013
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Tuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975
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Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
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Tuesday May 5, 1953 to Present
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19th Century BC to 539 BC
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Tuesday Jan 27, 1756 to Wednesday May 11, 1791
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Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
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Saturday Mar 4, 1769 to Thursday Aug 2, 1849
Java

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Tuesday May 23, 1995 to Present
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Wednesday Jan 5, 1938 to Present
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Tuesday Mar 26, 1940 to Present
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1961 to 1989
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Saturday Feb 21, 1948 to Wednesday Feb 25, 1948
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Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
Portrait d'Ibrahim Pacha

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1789 to 1848
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Monday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962
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Friday Sep 4, 1998 to Present
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

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Friday Jun 10, 1921 to Friday Apr 9, 2021
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Saturday Apr 17, 1943 to Friday Apr 30, 1943
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Monday Feb 14, 2005 to Present
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1268 to 1268
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Tuesday Feb 4, 1913 to Monday Oct 24, 2005
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
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1438 to 1533
Chichen Itza piramid in México
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5th Century to 15th Century
Certosa di Pavia
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4th Century to 469
Hungarian flag with the 1949–1956 communist emblem cut out

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Saturday Jun 23, 1956 to Sunday Nov 11, 1956
Ottoman Empire Coat of arms

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1299 to Monday Mar 3, 1924
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Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
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1953 to Present
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Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 to Present
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1815 to 1871
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Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
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Saturday Sep 23, 1989 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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Wednesday Jan 7, 1942 to Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Pope John Paul II Image

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Tuesday May 18, 1920 to Saturday Apr 2, 2005
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Friday Apr 4, 1975 to Present
Depiction of the earthquake in an engraving from 1696, possibly showing Catania - 1693 Sicily earthquake

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Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
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Monday Aug 23, 1954 to Present
Hot Dog
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1200 to Present
Galileo Galilei

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Saturday Feb 15, 1564 to Wednesday Jan 8, 1642
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750s BC to 509 BC
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1986 to Present
Lionel Messi
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Wednesday Jun 24, 1987 to Present
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1940s to Present
Black Friday
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1952 to Present
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

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2000s BC to 1697
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Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
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Saturday Aug 13, 985 to Tuesday Feb 13, 1021
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 to Present
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Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
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Sunday Oct 30, 1960 to Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
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Wednesday Oct 27, 1858 to Monday Jan 6, 1919
Elizabeth Blackwell

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Saturday Feb 3, 1821 to Tuesday May 31, 1910
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Wednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953
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Thursday Aug 31, 1995 to Friday Dec 10, 2004
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Saturday Apr 26, 1986 to Present
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Tuesday Feb 9, 1954 to Present
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Mar, 2009 to Present
Flag of Weimar Republic

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1919 to 1933
River Phoenix
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Sunday Aug 23, 1970 to Sunday Oct 31, 1993
April Fools' Day

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Thursday Apr 1, 1582 to Present
Red Dog statue

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1971 to Wednesday Nov 21, 1979
New York Stock Exchange

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Thursday May 17, 1792 to Present
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Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
Canon Camera
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A camera is an optical instrument used to record images. At their most basic, cameras are sealed box...

4th Century to Present
Library
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The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
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
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

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Thursday Jul 1, 1954 to Friday Jan 3, 2020
Mohamed Aly Image

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Saturday Jan 17, 1942 to Friday Jun 3, 2016
Elliot Page
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Saturday Feb 21, 1987 to Present
Raúl Castro Image
Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician who is currently serving as the First Secretary of the...

Wednesday Jun 3, 1931 to Present
The Bank of America Corporate Center, headquarters of Bank of America in Charlotte

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1956 to Present
Hurricane Katrina Image

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on...

Monday Aug 22, 2005 to Wednesday Aug 31, 2005
Michael Jordan

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Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
H1N1 navbox Image
Spanish Flu

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Jan, 1918 to Dec, 1920
Lothar Meyer
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Thursday Aug 19, 1830 to Thursday Apr 11, 1895
Iran-Iraq War Image

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Monday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988
Current Bhutan flag

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1949 to Present
Ancient China
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This is a timeline of Ancient Chinese dynasties, comprising important legal and territorial changes ...

21st Century BC to 221 BC
Zara
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Zara SA, stylized as ZARA, is a Spanish apparel retailer based in Arteixo in Galicia. The company sp...

1975 to Present
United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international pea...

Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
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The Holocaust

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1941 to 1945
Marie Curie
Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pione...

Thursday Nov 7, 1867 to Wednesday Jul 4, 1934
First Chechen War (A Chechen fighter stands near the government palace building during a short lull in fighting in Grozny, Chechnya) Image

The First Chechen War, also known as the First Chechen Сampaign, First Russian-Chechen war, or offic...

Sunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996
Beethoven Image
Beethoven

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Dec, 1770 to Monday Mar 26, 1827
Ruhollah Khomeini

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), also known in the Western world a...

Wednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

The Ptolemaic Kingdom was an Ancient Greek state based in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period. It wa...

305 BC to 30 BC
Theodelinda married Agilulf

The Kingdom of the Lombards also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of Italy, was an ea...

568 to 774
Barack Obama Image
Barack Obama

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Friday Aug 4, 1961 to Present
Putin Image

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

Monday Oct 6, 1952 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
September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist atta...

Tuesday Sep 11, 2001 to Friday Jul 26, 2019
Chocolate
Chocolate

Chocolate is a preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds that are made in the form of a liquid, ...

15th Century BC to Present
W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, ...

Sunday Feb 23, 1868 to Tuesday Aug 27, 1963
Assyrian Empire
Assyria

Assyria, also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near ...

2500 BC to 609 BC
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