the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
August 17 
 1585  Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city.
August 17 
 1771  Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded successful climb of Ben Nevis, the highest point in both Scotland and the whole of the present-day United Kingdom.
August 17 
 1864  American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville - Confederate forces defeat Union forces near Gainesville, Florida.
August 17 
 1896  Bridget Driscoll becomes the first-recorded person to be killed in an automobile accident when she is run over in the grounds of London's Crystal Palace by a Benz car.
August 17 
 1943  World War II: The US Seventh Army under George S. Patton and the British 8th Army under field marshal Bernard Montgomery enter Messina, Sicily, completing the allied conquest of Sicily.
August 17 
 1959  Quake Lake in Yellowstone National Park is formed by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake centred near Hebgen Lake, Montana.
August 17 
 1978  US balloonists, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman and Max Anderson, become the first people to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hot-air balloon.
August 17 
 1998  US President Bill Clinton admits an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
August 17 
 1999  A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits İzmit in northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people, and injuring around 44,000.
August 17 
 2005  The first forced evacuation of settlers as part of the Israeli unilateral disengagement plan begins.
August 17 
 2005  Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at around 300 locations in 63 out of 64 districts in Bangladesh.
August 17 
 2008  Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win 8 individual gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
August 17 
 2009  An accident occurs at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Khakassia, Russia, killing 75 people and shutting down the hydroelectric power station.
August 17 
 2015  A bomb explodes at the Ratchaprasong Intersection near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing 23 people and injuring over 100.
August 17 
 2017  2017 Barcelona attack: A vehicle is driven at people on the street Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, killing 13 people.
August 17 
 2019  A bomb attack on a wedding party in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 63 people and wounds 180.
August 17 
 1786  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)
August 17 
 1907  Gustav Schwarzenegger, Austrian police chief and postal inspector, father of Arnold Schwarzenegger (d. 1972)
August 15 
 29 BC  Octavian is celebrated as conqueror of Egypt and takes over the ruling of the Roman Empire, later changing his name to Augustus.
August 15 
 982  Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Cape Colonna, in Calabria.
August 15 
 1040  King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in a battle he fought against his first cousin, and rival, Macbeth.
August 15 
 1281  Attempted Mongol invasions of Japan: A Mongolian fleet led by Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "Divine Wind" for the second time in the Battle of Koan.
August 15 
 1537  The city of Asuncion in present-day Paraguay is founded, named after the religious feast day of the Assumption of Mary.
August 15 
 1695  French forces end the bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the city's buildings in ruins.
August 15 
 1760  Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz - Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
August 15 
 1935  Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during take-off from Barrow, Alaska.
August 15 
 1941  Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad in the Tower of London, being the last person executed there for treason.
August 15 
 1947  India becomes independent (separate) from the United Kingdom from the formal Transfer of Power as the Empire is partitioned and adopts the name Bharat, while the new mainly Islamic state of Pakistan is created.
August 15 
 1961  Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the building of the Berlin Wall.
August 15 
 1963  President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital Brazzaville.
August 15 
 1965  The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 in New York City, an event later considered to be the birth of stadium rock.
August 15 
 1975  Along with members of his family, Bangladeshi political leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is killed in a coup.
August 15 
 1999  The Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria kills 29 people at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border.
August 15 
 2004  Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, gives his official royal duties over to his son, Alois, but remains as Head of State.
August 15 
 2005  Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements begins.
August 15 
 2007  A magnitude 8 earthquake centred off Peru's Pacific coast, devastates Ica province, killing 514 people, and injuring over 1000.
August 15 
 2018  A bomb attack on an education centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 34 people; on the same day, an attack in the country's Baghlan Province kills 9 police officers and 35 soldiers.
August 15 
 1943  Jean-Luc Mandaba, Central African politician, former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
August 14 
 29 BC  Octavian celebrates the second of his three consecutive triumphs in Rome after his victory over the Dalmatians.
August 14 
 1385  The Battle of Aljubarrota is fought, in which forces of King John I of Portugal defeat those of King John I of Castile.
August 14 
 1415  Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
August 14 
 1502  Christopher Columbus lands in present-day Honduras; this is the first time he sets foot on the mainland of the Americas.
August 14 
 1592  Imjin War: Battle of Hansan Island - Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hansan Island.
August 14 
 1888  Danish passenger steamer Geiser sinks off Sable Island after a collision with a ship of the same shipping line, killing 118 people.
August 14 
 1912  US marines land in Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
August 14 
 1921  Tannu Uriankhai, later the Tuvan People's Republic, is established as a completely independent country, supported by Soviet Russia.
August 14 
 1933  Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later becoming known as the forest fire of Tillamook Burn.
August 14 
 1936  Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States.
August 14 
 1941  World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of War, stating postwar aims.
August 14 
 1945  World War II: Japan accepts Allied terms of surrender  and the Emperor, Hirohito, records the Imperial Rescription surrender.
August 14 
 1947  Partition of India: Pakistan, a new Islamic state, becomes independent from the United Kingdom, and consists of West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).
August 14 
 1958  A propeller plane operated by the Dutch airline KLM crashes into the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland.
August 14 
 1980  The Gdansk shipyard strike in Poland occurs, as an uprising against Communist rule, and leads to the foundation of the Solidarity movement led by Lech Walesa.
August 14 
 2005  Helios Airways Flight 522, travelling from Larnaca in Cyprus, crashes near Grammatiko in Greece, killing all 121 people on board, after the air conditioner fails.
August 14 
 2013  Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators who support the ousted President Mohamed Morsi.
August 14 
 2013  The England national football team and Scotland national football team play each other for the first time since 1999 in the oldest international football fixture.
August 14 
 2015  The United States re-opens its Embassy in Havana, Cuba, 54 years after the countries initially broke diplomatic ties.
August 14 
 2019  With support on board, Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg starts sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from Plymouth, Devon, England to New York City to take part in a climate change summit.
August 14 
 2018  Michael Persinger, American-Canadian psychology professor and neuroscience researcher (b. 1945)
August 13 
 29 BC  Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
August 13 
 1326  Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti.
August 13 
 In it, Francis recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
August 13 
 1536  Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (
August 13 
 1704  War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.
August 13 
 1779  American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of US Naval Forces before the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
August 13 
 1792  Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal and declared an enemy of the people.
August 13 
 1806  The United Kingdom takes control of the Cape Colony in present-day South Africa from the Netherlands.
August 13 
 1814  The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.
August 13 
 1826  Scotsman Alexander Gordon Laing enters Timbuktu, at the first time that a European is known to have arrived there.
August 13 
 1868  A large earthquake strikes near Arica (then in Peru, now in Chile), causing an estimated 25,000 casualties and a tsunami that causes damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
August 13 
 1898  Spanish-American War: Spanish and US forces engage in a mock battle in Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrenders in order to keep the city out of Filipino hands.
August 13 
 1940  World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.
August 13 
 1961  The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to stop its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
August 13 
 1964  Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West, becoming the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom.
August 13 
 1968  Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate Greek military leader George Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
August 13 
 1969  The three Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, are released from a 3-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
August 13 
 That evening, at a dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Richard Nixon.
August 13 
 1977  Members of the British National Front clash with anti-National Front demonstrators in Lewisham, London.
August 13 
 1978  150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
August 13 
 2001  The Arena auf Schalke is opened, as the home of the football team FC Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
August 13 
 2002  Major flooding occurs in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in what is referred to there as the "Flood of the Century".
August 13 
 1941  Ambrogio Fogar, Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all-round adventurer and television presenter (d. 2005)
August 11 
 3114 BC  The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilisations, notably the Maya, begins, ending either on December 21 or 23, 2012.
August 11 
 490  Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River near Milan.
August 11 
 1812  Peninsular War: French troops engage in battle with British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
August 11 
 1858  The Eiger in the Swiss Alps is first climbed by Charles Barrington, accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohlen.
August 11 
 1904  Battle of Waterberg in present-day Namibia: In a battle with German colonial troops, 30,000 Herero and Nama people are killed.
August 11 
 1929  Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs, at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
August 11 
 1942  Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
August 11 
 1961  The former Portuguese territories of India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged into the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, as part of the Republic of India.
August 11 
 1962  Vostok 3 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome and Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
August 11 
 1979  A dam break in Morvi, Gujarat, India, following heavy rain, kills between 2,000 and 5,000 people.
August 11 
 1982  A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, between Tokyo and Honolulu, killing one person, and injuring 15.
August 11 
 1984  'We begin bombing in five minutes': Ronald Reagan jokes while preparing for a weekly radio address while running for re-election as US President.
August 11 
 2003  A heatwave in Paris, France kills an estimated 144 people, with temperatures reaching 44 degrees Celsius.
August 11 
 2003  Jemaah Islamiyah leader Ridyan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
August 11 
 2012  Two earthquakes of a magnitude over 6, followed by several aftershocks, strike the area around Tabriz, in northwestern Iran.
August 11 
 2014  American actor and comedian Robin Williams is found dead at his home in California, having committed suicide.
August 11 
 1833  Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator, atheist, American Civil War Colonel (d. 1899)
August 11 
 1858  Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch doctor, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering vitamins (d. 1930)
August 11 
 2009  Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, and sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)
August 11 
 2017  Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor, oldest-living man (b. 1903)
August 10 
 654  Eugene I is elected Pope, although his predecessor, Pope Martin I, is still alive at this time.
August 10 
 843  The Treaty of Verdun divides the Frankish Kingdom between Lothair I, Louis the German and Charles the Bald.
August 10 
 AD 955  Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
August 10 
 1755  Under orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
August 10 
 1846  The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
August 10 
 1861  American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
August 10 
 1913  Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
August 10 
 1920  World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
August 10 
 1932  A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri, USA.
August 10 
 1948  Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
August 10 
 1949  US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
August 10 
 1969  A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
August 10 
 1977  In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
August 10 
 This event will later prompt the United States Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children.
August 10 
 It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
August 10 
 1988  Japanese American internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
August 10 
 2003  The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent; the record holds until 2019, when a temperature of 38.7 degrees Celsius is measured at the University of Cambridge.
August 10 
 2003  Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas.
August 10 
 2014  Turkey holds its first direct Presidential election, in which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is elected President.
August 10 
 2017  Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappears after going on inventor Peter Madsen's submarine to interview him, in the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden; Madsen is later found to have murdered her and is found guilty of the crime.
August 10 
 2018  2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident: Seattle airport employee Richard Russell flies a small plane from the airport and later crashes it on a nearby island.
August 10 
 2019  American billionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell in New York City, from suspected suicide.
August 10 
 1810  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and Italy (died 1861)
August 10 
 1900  Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1994)
August 22 
 Richard III of England dies, and Henry VII of England takes over, starting the period with the Tudor Dynasty ruling England, lasting until 1603.
August 22 
 1777  American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix, after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
August 22 
 1780  James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
August 22 
 1832  Dressed as an Arab, Swiss Jean Louis Burckhardt reaches Petra, the famous rock city in Jordan.
August 22 
 1875  The Treaty of Saint Petersburg is ratified between Russia and Japan, providing for exchange between Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands.
August 22 
 1922  Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an anti-treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork during the Irish Civil War.
August 22 
 1930  Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguia y Salcedo is deposed in a coup led by General Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro.
August 22 
 1944  32 Spaniards and 4 Frenchmen tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with six tanks and two self-propelled guns), at La Madeleine, France.
August 22 
 1985  The Manchester Air Disaster occurs when 55 people are killed after a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester International Airport.
August 22 
 1989  Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.
August 22 
 1992  FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
August 22 
 2004  The Scream and The Madonna by Edvard Munch is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
August 22 
 2015  A plane at an airshow in Shoreham, Southern England, crashes onto a motorway, killing 11 people.
August 22 
 1903  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
Noon 
 Noon is the time exactly halfway through the day (12.00-12:00 in the 24-hour clock and 12:00 PM-12:00 PM in the 12-hour clock).
Noon 
 Solar noon is when the sun appears the highest in the sky, compared to its positions during the rest of the day.
Noon 
 At solar noon, the sun is due south seen from the Northern Hemisphere, and due north seen from the Southern Hemisphere.
Noon 
 The sun is directly overhead at solar noon at the Equator on the equinoxes; at Tropic of ♋  (latitude 23½°N) on the summer solstice in June; and at Tropic of Capricorn (23½°S) on the winter solstice in December.
Noon 
 Because of the use of time zones and daylight saving time, the highest point of the sun and a clock time of noon are usually different.
24-hour clock 
 The 24-hour clock is a way of telling the time in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, numbered from 0 to 24.
24-hour clock 
 It does not use a.m. or p.m. This system is also referred to (only in the US and the English speaking parts of Canada) as military time or  (only in the United Kingdom and now very rarely) as continental time.
24-hour clock 
 A time in the 24-hour clock is written in the form hours:minutes (for example, 01:23), or hours:minutes:seconds (01:23:45).
24-hour clock 
 Under the 24-hour clock system, the day begins at midnight, 00:00, and the last minute of the day begins at 23:59 and ends at 24:00, which is identical to 00:00 of the following day.
24-hour clock 
 Midnight is called 24:00 and is used to mean the end of the day and 00:00 is used to mean the beginning of the day.
24-hour clock 
 For example, you would say "Tuesday at 24:00" and "Wednesday at 00:00" to mean exactly the same time.
24-hour clock 
 However, the US military prefers not to say 24:00 - they do not like to have two names for the same thing, so they always say "23:59", which is one minute before midnight.
24-hour clock 
 For example, a train due to arrive at a station during the last minute of a day arrives at 24:00; but trains which depart during the first minute of the day go at 00:00.
Fifth Avenue 
 Running from Greenwich Village in southern Manhattan to Harlem in the north, the avenue marks the line dividing Manhattan into two parts, called the East Side and the West Side.
Fifth Avenue 
 The nearest avenues, on either side, are Madison Avenue (east) and Sixth Avenue (west), also known as the Avenue of the Americas.
Fifth Avenue 
 There are many famous sights, such as the New York Public Library, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center and Central Park (which runs along the west side, between 59th and 110th Street).
Ulster Volunteer Force 
 The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a loyalist paramilitary (civilians trained as soldiers) group based in Northern Ireland.
Ulster Volunteer Force 
 Its name comes from the UVF of World War I. The Ulster Volunteer Force was started as a Protestant/Unionist militia (citizen military force) in 1912 to oppose the Home Rule campaign for a separate Irish parliament.
Ulster Volunteer Force 
 Many UVF members formed the 36th (Ulster) Division that fought with the British Army in World War I. The Progressive Unionist Party is the political wing of the outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando.
Ulster Volunteer Force 
 Although the PUP is called a loyalist fringe party, it has more moderate unionist views than any of the traditional unionist parties.
Ulster Volunteer Force 
 In 1974, they placed three car bombs in the centre of Dublin and another in Monaghan, which were deliberately exploded at rush hour to kill as many people as possible.
Ulster Volunteer Force 
 In 1975, they shot dead three members of the Miami Showband, a popular showband from Dublin, as they were travelling home from doing a show in County Down, Northern Ireland.