the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
April 30 
 2009 – Netherlands: An attempted attack is made on the Dutch Royal Family at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, as a car is driven into the crowd, killing seven spectators, and the perpetrator, Karst Tates, who dies the next day.
April 30 
 1949 – António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations and former Prime Minister of Portugal
April 30 
 Queen's Day in the Netherlands (birthday of Queen Juliana), celebrated on this date from 1949 to 2013
April 16 
 1520 - The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
April 16 
 1521 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and other estates of the empire.
April 16 
 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought near Inverness, Scotland, as a Highlander army is defeated by a Lowlander army, lead by the Duke of Cumberland.
April 16 
 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon Bonaparte drives the Ottoman Turks across the river Jordan near Acre, in present-day Israel.
April 16 
 1818 - The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
April 16 
 1847 - The accidental shooting of a Maori by an English sailor results in the start of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Land Wars.
April 16 
 1919 - Mahatma Gandhi organizes a day of "Prayer and Fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protestors in Amritsar, in the Jallianwala Massacre by British colonial troops three days earlier.
April 16 
 1919 - Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in present-day Lithuania.
April 16 
 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing diplomatic relations between Germany and Soviet Russia.
April 16 
 1941 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only opening day no-hitter in Major League Baseball, defeating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
April 16 
 1945 – World War II: German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo, killing around 7,000 people.
April 16 
 1947 – Texas City, Texas, is set on fire after an explosion on a freighter, killing around 600 people.
April 16 
 1961 - Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is officially adopting Communism.
April 16 
 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. writes the 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' while imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against racial segregation.
April 16 
 1992 – The Katina P runs aground off Maputo, Mozambique, spilling around 60,000 tons of crude oil into the Indian Ocean.
April 16 
 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, allowing 10 new members to join the EU on May 1, 2004.
April 16 
 2007 – Seung-Hui Cho, kills 33 people, including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst shooting spree in modern US history.
April 16 
 2014 - The MV Sewol ferry, travelling from Incheon to Jeju Island off the south coast of South Korea, sinks near Jindo Island off the southwest coast, killing 295 people.
April 16 
 2014 - Scientists announce the possible discovery of a new moon of Saturn being created out of its rings.
April 16 
 2017 - Turkey holds a referendum on changing the constitution to that of a Presidential republic; Results indicate just over half of voters support the proposal.
April 16 
 2019 - The Notre-Dame de Paris fire, which broke out the previous evening, is extinguished by firefighters.
April 10 
 1606 - The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
April 10 
 1809 - Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition starts, when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
April 10 
 1864 - Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico.
April 10 
 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
April 10 
 1887 - Pope Leo XIII, on Easter Sunday, authorizes the creation of The Catholic University of America.
April 10 
 1916 – The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City by 82 charter members.
April 10 
 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
April 10 
 1940 - Katyn massacre: Mass execution of 40,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia is approved and signed by Joseph Stalin.
April 10 
 1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
April 10 
 1953 – The House of Wax opens at New York City's Paramount Theater (it was the first color feature in 3-D).
April 10 
 1963 – The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians)
April 10 
 1970 – Vietnam War: 48 percent of the Americans polled in a Gallup Poll approve of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's Vietnam policy, while 41 percent disapprove.
April 10 
 1971 – Cold War: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China host the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
April 10 
 1972 – 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
April 10 
 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
April 10 
 1979 – On the day known to meteorologists as "terrible Tuesday", a tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (
April 10 
 1991 - Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Tuscany, killing 140 people.
April 10 
 1992 – The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
April 10 
 2006 – In a close election, Romano Prodi is elected Prime Minister of Italy, succeeding Silvio Berlusconi, who later regains this position, in 2008.
April 10 
 2009 - President of Fiji Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all of the governance of the country.
April 10 
 2019 - Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Project announce the first-ever image of a black hole, at the centre of the M87 Galaxy.
April 10 
 2019 - Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave on the Philippines' island of Luzon reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of human.
April 10 
 1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1971)
April 10 
 1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2010)
April 11 
 1856 - Battle of Rivas in Costa Rica: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
April 11 
 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, ending the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.
April 11 
 1921 - Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralized government the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
April 11 
 1951 – The Stone of Scone, on which Scottish monarchs were crowned, is found in Arbroath, after it had been taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students.
April 11 
 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess aircraft is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
April 11 
 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israels then-foreign minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
April 11 
 2001 – In an association football match, Australia beats American Samoa 31-0, setting a record for an international match in the sport.
April 11 
 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is briefly removed from office in a US-backed coup, but is soon reinstated.
April 11 
 2006 - Ehud Olmert officially becomes Prime Minister of Israel, as Ariel Sharon is unable to continue in this role after a stroke three months earlier.
April 11 
 2011 – In Ivory Coast, the political crisis comes to an end after Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in Abidjan, with Alassane Ouattara becoming the next President.
April 11 
 2012 – Two earthquakes, including one of magnitude 8.2, strike off Sumatra, causing a tsunami alert.
April 11 
 2019 - India's 2019 general election begins; lasting over six weeks, it is the world's biggest democratic process.
April 11 
 2019 - Ecuador removes the asylum it gave to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, leading to his arrest after seven years spent there.
April 11 
 2019 - President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is removed from power by the military, after a series of protests against his rule.
April 11 
 1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and politician, United States Secretary of State (d. 1948)
April 11 
 1874 - David Murray Anderson, British Governor and naval officer, 66th Governor of Newfoundland and 28th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1936)
April 11 
 1904 - Cyril Pearl, Australian journalist, editor, author, social historian and television personality (d. 1987)
April 12 
 238 - Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against Numidian forces loyal to Maximus Thrax and is killed.
April 12 
 1204 - Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
April 12 
 1917 - World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
April 12 
 1927 - Chiang Kai-shek orders Communist Party of China members to be executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
April 12 
 1928 - The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
April 12 
 1934 – The strongest wind gust, outside of Antarctica or not within a tornado, is measured at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, at 231 miles per hour (372 kilometres per hour).
April 12 
 1963 - Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant navy vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
April 12 
 1968 - A day after the attack on student activist Rudi Dutschke, protests and riots erupt across several cities in West Germany.
April 12 
 1970 - Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay near France and Spain four days after a fire on board.
April 12 
 1980 – In Liberia, Samuel K. Doe takes power in a coup, in which President William Tolbert is killed.
April 12 
 2002 - In a US-backed military coup in Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez is replaced as Head of State by Pedro Carmona.
April 12 
 2009 – Zimbabwe abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency, after a severe economic crisis in the country.
April 12 
 2014 - A wildfire ravages the Chilean city of Valparaiso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
April 12 
 1884 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)
April 13 
 1204 – Constantinople falls to the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
April 13 
 1749 - A cyclone off Southeast India sinks British ships HMS Pembroke and HMS Namur, killing 850 people.
April 13 
 1777 - American Revolutionary War; American forces are ambushed and defeated  in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
April 13 
 1829 – Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom are granted the right to vote and are allowed to sit in parliament.
April 13 
 1873 - The Colfax Massacre, in which over 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place in Colfax, Louisiana.
April 13 
 1904 – The Russian battleship Petropavlovsk of the Russian Pacific Fleet hits a Japanese mine and sinks.
April 13 
 1909 - The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
April 13 
 1919 - Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India.
April 13 
 1934 – While still under construction, the railway bridge in Saratov, Russia, collapses, killing 150 people.
April 13 
 1943 - World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyn massacre is announced.
April 13 
 This causes a rift between the Polish Government-in-exile (based in London) and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
April 13 
 1945 - World War II: German troops kill over 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
April 13 
 1948 - Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
April 13 
 1970 – Houston, we've had a problem: An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, causing major damage, and putting the crew at risk.
April 13 
 1972 - The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China instead of the Republic of China.
April 13 
 1975 – At least 17 people are killed in a gun battle between Palestinian Guerrillas and Christian militants in Beirut.
April 13 
 1986 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit a Jewish place of worship when he visits a synagogue in Rome.
April 13 
 1992 – In the United Kingdom, the leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, announces his resignation.
April 13 
 1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English aristocrat and businessman (d. 2014)
May 9 
 1864 - Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
May 9 
 1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 miles per hour (160.9 kilometers per hour) in speed.
May 9 
 1918 - World War I: German troops repel the second British attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
May 9 
 1926 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole, though this claim is later doubted.
May 9 
 1934 - In the United States, one of the worst Dust Bowl storms occurs, reaching Chicago on the same day and the East Coast the next day, completely destroying many livelihoods, especially in rural areas.
May 9 
 1940 - World War II: A German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris in Den Helder, Netherlands.
May 9 
 His reign only lasts a few weeks, as a majority in a June 2 referendum chooses to make Italy a republic.
May 9 
 1980 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter, MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, making a section of it collapse, killing 35 people.
May 9 
 2002 - A 38-day stand-off at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ends when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to different countries.
May 9 
 2011 - Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt suffers a serious accident during the Giro d'Italia race, dying of his injuries.
May 9 
 Victory and Peace Day in Armenia, the capture of Shushi in the Karabakh War and the end of Great Patriotic War.
May 9 
 Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
May 7 
 973 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor takes sole charge of the Holy Roman Empire after the death of his father and co-Emperor Otto I.
May 7 
 1429 - Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
May 7 
 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed in a huge fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced with the current Royal Palace).
May 7 
 1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
May 7 
 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
May 7 
 1864 - The world's oldest-surviving clipper ship, City of Adelaide, is launched by William Pile in Sunderland, Northeast England.
May 7 
 1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates an invention which became the prototype of radio.
May 7 
 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion arrive in Spain with Heinkel He 51 biplanes to assist Franco's forces.
May 7 
 It eventually results in Winston Churchill replacing Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
May 7 
 1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war.
May 7 
 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
May 7 
 1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
May 7 
 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
May 7 
 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
May 7 
 1964 - Pacific Air Lines flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner crashes near San Ramon, California, killing 44.
May 7 
 1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law.
May 7 
 1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery.
May 7 
 1994 - The Scream by Edvard Munch is recovered after it was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo, in February.
May 7 
 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
May 7 
 1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
May 7 
 1999 – A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode.
May 7 
 1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
May 7 
 2001 - Wanted train robber Ronnie Biggs returns to the UK after spending over 30 years on the run in Brazil.
May 7 
 2010 – Scientists working on the Neanderthal Genome Project announce that modern humans and Neanderthals could have interbred.
May 7 
 2012 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia for a second time, swapping places with Dmitry Medvedev, who becomes Prime Minister.
May 7 
 2013 - 27 people are killed and over 30 are injured when a tanker truck explodes outside Mexico City.
May 7 
 The Conservative Party of incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron wins a surprise overall majority, with the Labour Party losing seats across England, Scotland and Wales.
May 7 
 2016 - Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party becomes Mayor of London, after defeating Conservative Zac Goldsmith in the election.
May 6 
 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome, in what is seen by some to be the end of the Renaissance.
May 6 
 1536 - The Siege of Cuzco starts, in which Incan forces attempt to re-take the city from the Spanish.
May 6 
 1659 - English Restoration: A faction of the army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector and re-instates the Rump Parliament.
May 6 
 1757 - Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
May 6 
 1782 - Building work begins on the Grand Palace, residence of the Kings of Siam, present-day Thailand, in Bangkok.
May 6 
 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
May 6 
 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the Confederates defeating the Army of the Potomac.
May 6 
 1902 - British ship Carmorta sinks in a cyclone in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, killing all 739 people on board.
May 6 
 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner comes to power in Paraguay, after leading a military coup against Federico Chaves.
May 6 
 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and President of France Francois Mitterrand jointly open it.
May 6 
 1996 – CIA director William Colby is found dead on a Maryland riverbank, eight days after his disappearance.
May 6 
 1998 – Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev moves his seat of government from Almaty to Akmola, which is renamed Astana.
May 6 
 2004 - The series finale of Friends is shown on NBC in the United States, receiving over 52 million viewers.
May 6 
 On May 11, the Conservatives under David Cameron and Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg agree to form a coalition government.
May 6 
 2011 – After the previous day's election the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond wins an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, with 69 out of the 129 seats.
May 6 
 2012 – Francois Hollande is elected President of France, as Nicolas Sarkozy is voted out of office after one term.
May 6 
 2012 – The parliamentary election in Greece ends in an inconclusive result, as both main parties lose votes for supporting austerity measures.
May 6 
 2013 - Ariel Castro kidnappings: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry (and her child by Castro), and Gina DeJesus are found in Ariel Castro's house in Cleveland, Ohio, where they had been held captive for around ten years.
May 6 
 2015 - Jim Wright, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1922)
May 5 
 1215 - Rebel barons renounce (withdraw) their allegiance to King John of England, as part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
May 5 
 1668 - Portuguese galley Santissimo Sacramento strikes a reef off the coast of Salvador, Northeast Brazil, and sinks.
May 5 
 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
May 5 
 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, eventually leading to the creating of the Kingdom of Italy.
May 5 
 1862 – Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
May 5 
 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
May 5 
 1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
May 5 
 1886 – The Bay View Tragedy occurs, militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.
May 5 
 1891 – The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 5 
 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
May 5 
 1920 - Sacco and Vanzetti case: US authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
May 5 
 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
May 5 
 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day, or Patriots' Victory Day.
May 5 
 1945 – World War II: German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation.
May 5 
 1945 – World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
May 5 
 1946 - The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo, with 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.