the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
October 23 
 1086 - Battle of az-Zallaqah: The army of Yusuf ibn Tashfa defeats forces of King Alfonso VI of Castile.
October 23 
 1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear: British Prime Minister Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain.
October 23 
 1812 - Charles Francois de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow then-Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, by falsely claiming that he (Napoleon) had died in his attempt to conquer Russia.
October 23 
 1915 - 25,000 to 33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate their right to vote.
October 23 
 1940 - Norwegian Hurtigruten passenger steamer Prinsesse Ragnhild sinks after an explosion off northern Norway, killing 299 people on board.
October 23 
 1941 – World War II: Georgy Zhukov takes command of the Red Army operation to prevent the Nazis' further advances into Russia.
October 23 
 1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein takes place, as the British Eighth Army begins an offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
October 23 
 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Henderson Field begins in the Guadalcanal Campaign, lasting until October 26.
October 23 
 1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump mining disaster in Nova Scotia, killing 74 people, with 100 surviving the accident.
October 23 
 1970 - Gary Gabelich sets a land-speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled by natural gas.
October 23 
 1972 - Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker - The US ends a bombing campaign of North Vietnam following the Easter Offensive.
October 23 
 2012 - The BBC ends its 38-year teletext service Ceefax, with Northern Ireland completing the United Kingdom's transition to digital television broadcasting.
October 23 
 2015 - Hurricane Patricia is measured as the heaviest hurricane ever to hit North or Central America, as it hits the Pacific Ocean coast of Mexico.
October 23 
 2015 - 43 people, mostly pensioners on a day-trip, die in a coach crash in Southwestern France, in one of the country's deadliest-ever road accidents.
October 23 
 2018 - The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is officially opened by Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping.
October 23 
 2018 - October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts: A mail bomb addressed to former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is caught by police, after one addressed to George Soros was caught the previous day.
October 23 
 1986 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, won the 1843 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
October 26 
 1597 - Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships of his own.
October 26 
 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of Scotland and England.
October 26 
 1689 - General Enea Silvio Piccolimini of Austria burns down Skopje, in the present-day Republic of Macedonia.
October 26 
 1708 - The final stone of the newly-rebuilt St. Paul's Cathedral in London is laid by the son of Christopher Wren.
October 26 
 1775 - George III of Great Britain and Ireland authorises military force against the American colonies.
October 26 
 1776 - Benjamin Franklin leaves the United States for France to seek French support for the American Revolutionary War.
October 26 
 1813 - War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia and Mohawks defeats the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
October 26 
 1859 - British clipper Royal Charter gets into a storm of the island of Anglesey, Wales, being thrown against rocks before sinking, killing 449 people, including all the women and children on board.
October 26 
 1909 – Japanese Governor of Korea, Hirobumi Ito is shot dead by Korean nationalist Ahn Jung-geun in Harbin, Manchuria.
October 26 
 1917 - World War I: In the Battle of Caporetto, Italy is decisively defeated by forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany.
October 26 
 1918 - General Erich Ludendorff is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to take part in peace negotiations.
October 26 
 1936 - The first electric generator at the Hoover Dam, on the Arizona-Nevada border, goes into full operation.
October 26 
 1942 - World War II: Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in the Guadalcanal Campaign, ending in Japanese victory.
October 26 
 1958 - Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
October 26 
 1984 – The movie The Terminator, directed by James Cameron, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, is released.
October 26 
 1998 - President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad and President of Peru Alberto Fujimori meet in Brasilia to agree to an end to their countries' border war.
October 26 
 2002 – Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian security forces storm a theatre building in Moscow, which had been occupied by terrorists for three days.
October 26 
 2003 – The Cedar fire occurs in California, killing 15 people, destroying 1, 000 square kilometres of forests, and 2,200 homes around San Diego.
October 26 
 2012 - Media tycoon and former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of tax fraud.
October 26 
 2015 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 strikes Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 365 people.
October 26 
 2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, leading a Labour-New Zealand First Party coalition government.
October 26 
 2018 - October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts: Police in Florida arrest a 56-year-old suspect, Cesar Sayoc, in their hunt for the sender of several mail bombs to well-known figures in the US Democratic party and people who have criticized US President Donald Trump.
October 26 
 2018 - Michael D. Higgins is re-elected President of Ireland; on the same day the country's voters also vote to get rid of its blasphemy law.
October 26 
 2019 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is reported to have blown himself up during a US military operation in Northern Syria.
October 26 
 1947 – Hillary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State, and former First Lady of the United States
October 26 
 1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American animator, voice actor, producer and director, creator of Family Guy and American Dad
October 26 
 1909 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea, and first Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)
October 26 
 1937 – Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, commander of Greater Poland Uprising in 1919 (b. 1867)
October 26 
 2019 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi terrorist, leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (b. 1971)
October 20 
 France, Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
October 20 
 Among other things, it settles most of the Canada-United States border to run along the 49th parallel.
October 20 
 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
October 20 
 The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.
October 20 
 1883 – Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
October 20 
 1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storange tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
October 20 
 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
October 20 
 1948 - A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner crashes at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland, killing all 40 people on board.
October 20 
 1952 - In then-British Kenya, leaders of the Mau-Mau uprising are arrested, including Jomo Kenyatta.
October 20 
 1973 – The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
October 20 
 1976 - The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, killing 78 people.
October 20 
 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.
October 20 
 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
October 20 
 2011 – 2011 Libyan civil war: Forces loyal to the National Transitional Council take the city of Sirte, the last remaining pro-Gaddafi stronghold.
October 20 
 2013 - Luxembourg holds an early election after long-serving Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker was involved in a spy scandal.
October 20 
 2018 - Around 700,000 people march against Brexit (and for a second referendum on the issue) in London, in the biggest such gathering in the United Kingdom since 2003.
October 20 
 2018 - Donald Trump decides to pull the United States out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.
October 20 
 1904 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian politician, founder of public healthcare in Canada (died 1986)
October 20 
 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
October 27 
 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, establishing boundaries between the US and the Spanish colonies.
October 27 
 1838 - Governor of Missouri Lilburn Boggs issues an extermination order to Mormons in the state, which would force them either to leave or be killed.
October 27 
 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Francois Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion to the Siege of Metz.
October 27 
 1907 - Cernova massacre: 15 people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church for its consecration.
October 27 
 1914 - World War I: British super dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious is sunk off Tory Island, northwest of Ireland, by a minefield laid by German merchant cruiser Berlin.
October 27 
 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation (being taken control of) to the Union of South Africa.
October 27 
 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African American to join the United States Air Force.
October 27 
 1962 - Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
October 27 
 1962 - A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, a post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
October 27 
 1962 - Australian Dawn Fraser swims the 100 meter-backstroke in less than a minute, as the first woman to do so.
October 27 
 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in-absentia (without attending) for corruption.
October 27 
 2002 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected to succeed Fernando Henrique Cardoso as President of Brazil.
October 27 
 2013 - Sebastian Vettel becomes the fourth driver to win four Formula One world titles in a row, and the youngest driver, at age 26, to do so.
October 27 
 2013 - Storms begin to affect parts of western and central Europe, causing destruction and disruption the next day.
October 27 
 2017 - The Parliament of Catalonia declares the region's independence from Spain; The central government in Madrid decides to impose direct rule on Catalonia.
October 27 
 2018 - Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: A gunman shoots and kills 11 people worshipping at a synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighbourhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
October 27 
 2018 - 2018 Leicester City F.C. helicopter crash: A helicopter crash near Leicester City F.C.'s King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, kills 5 people, including the club's Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
October 27 
 2019 - Sophie Wilmès becomes the first female Prime Minister of Belgium, succeeding Charles Michel, who had been chosen to succeed Donald Tusk as President of the European Council.
October 27 
 2019 - Alberto Fernández wins Argentina's Presidential election against the incumbent Mauricio Macri.
October 27 
 1744 – Mary Moser, English painter and one of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy (d. 1819)
October 29 
 1390 - The first witchcraft trial to take place in Paris begins, later ending in three people being executed.
October 29 
 1675 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
October 29 
 1787 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is publicly performed for the first time, in Prague.
October 29 
 1867 - Near the British Virgin Islands, the British ship RMS Rhone sinks in a strong hurricane, killing at least 24 people.
October 29 
 1886 - The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City to celebrate the inauguration, on the previous day, of the Statue of Liberty.
October 29 
 1894 - New Zealand passenger steamer Wairarapa strikes a reef off eastern Australia and sinks, killing 121 people.
October 29 
 1901 – For fatally shooting US President William McKinley, Leon Czolgosz is executed by electrocution.
October 29 
 1901 - American nurse Jane Toppan is arrested, after autopsies of the Davies family found traces of poison.
October 29 
 1942 - World War II: German U-boat U 575 sinks British passenger ship Abosso in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 362 people.
October 29 
 1944 - World War II: The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by the 1st Polish Armoured Division.
October 29 
 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk is sunk by an explosion in Sevastopol, killing 608 officers.
October 29 
 1956 - Suez Canal: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsulaand push Egyptian forces back to the Suez Canal.
October 29 
 1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins his first professional fight.
October 29 
 1964 - The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar changes its name to Tanzania, with Julius Nyerere as President.
October 29 
 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is created by ARPANET, a forerunner to the internet.
October 29 
 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul is opened by Turkey's then-President Fahri Koroturk, to mark 50 years of the Republic.
October 29 
 1986 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
October 29 
 1998 – Hurricane Mitch wreaks havoc across Central America, causing destruction, flooding a several deaths after making landfall.
October 29 
 1998 – South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemns all sides for human rights violations.
October 29 
 1998 – A Turkish airliner with 39 people on board, flying from Adana to Ankara, is hijacked by Kurdish militants, demanding the pilot to fly to Switzerland.
October 29 
 The pilot successfully lands in Ankara after tricking the militants into thinking that he was flying to Sofia, Bulgaria to refuel.
October 29 
 1999 – A tropical cyclone hits southern and eastern India, particularly affecting the state of Orissa.
October 29 
 2002 – A department store fire in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam kills at least 60 people and leaves around 100 missing.
October 29 
 2012 - After leaving a trail of destruction across the Caribbean, killing 67 people, Hurricane Sandy strikes the east coast of the United States, causing major flooding, and in some parts snowfall, to several Eastern and Great Lakes states as well as parts of southern Canada.
October 29 
 2018 - Lion Air Flight 610 crashes into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.
October 29 
 2019 - United Kingdom general election, 2019: The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes in favour of holding the country's first December general election (on December 12) in 96 years.
October 22 
 1383 – A time of civil war began in Portugal when King Fernando dies without a male heir to the throne.
October 22 
 1707 - Scilly naval disaster: Four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly, off Cornwall, England, because of faulty navigation.
October 22 
 1740 - End of a two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese people in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in present-day Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies).
October 22 
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
October 22 
 1797 – One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
October 22 
 1844 – The Great Anticipation: The Millerites, followers of William Miller, expect the end of the World to occur on this date.
October 22 
 1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
October 22 
 1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance by Charles Gounod's Faust.
October 22 
 1895 - In Paris, an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 meters of concourse, before crashing through a wall and falling 10 meters on the road below.
October 22 
 1910 - Hawley Harvey Crippen is found guilty at the Old Bailey in London of poisoning his wife, and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison.
October 22 
 1941 - World War II: French resistance member Guy Moquet and 29 others are executed by the German in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
October 22 
 1943 - World War II: in the second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts and air raid on the city of Kassel in the current state of Hesse.
October 22 
 1948 - Walter Ulbricht declares the Oder-Neisse Line to be the border between East Germany and Poland.
October 22 
 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy says that American spy planes have found Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
October 22 
 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee choses the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
October 22 
 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
October 22 
 1968 – Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release the classic album Led Zeppelin II, featuring the hit single "Whole Lotta Love."
October 22 
 1999 – Maurice Papon, a French Vichy Government official in World War II, is jailed for Crimes against Humanity.
October 22 
 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active on record.
October 22 
 2007 - Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 commandos of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
October 22 
 2015 - An attacker kills two people with a sword at a school in Trollhattan, Western Sweden, before being shot dead by police.
October 22 
 2019 - Abortion and same-sex marriage become legal in Northern Ireland after the deadline for the return of the Assembly at Stormont at Belfast is missed; the two laws had been voted for by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom because of the Assembly's absence.
October 22 
 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, Hungarian scientist, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
October 15 
 533 – Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
October 15 
 1066 - After the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the AEtheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned.
October 15 
 1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
October 15 
 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon marks the first human flight in this mode of transport, by Jean-Jacques Pilatre de Rozier.
October 15 
 1863 – American Civil War: The first successful submarine, the CSS Hunley sinks during a test, killing its inventor.
October 15 
 1883 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional.
October 15 
 1888 - Investigators receives the "From Hell" letter, believed to have been written by the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
October 15 
 1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur, Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War.
October 15 
 1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.
October 15 
 1928 - Airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first flight across the Atlantic Ocean when it lands at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
October 15 
 1940 – The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary movie by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
October 15 
 1945 – World War II: Former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is executed by firing squad for treason.
October 15 
 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, Hermann Göring, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.
October 15 
 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: A stand-off ensues between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba.
October 15 
 1965 – Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States.
October 15 
 1966 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
October 15 
 1969 – Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
October 15 
 1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
October 15 
 1979 - A military junta takes over in El Salvador, after the overthrow of President Carlos Humberto Romero.
October 15 
 1981 – Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California.
October 15 
 This date is therefore on exactly the same week-day as the same date in 1582 (the day it was first introduced).
October 15 
 1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is given the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
October 15 
 1991 – Following a bitter confirmation hearing that involved allegations of sexual misconduct, the United States Senate votes to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States.
October 15 
 2006 - The first Lusophone Games, for countries and territories speaking the Portuguese language, end in Macao.
October 15 
 2011 – Occupy Wall Street Campaign: In 951 cities in 82 countries, people protest against economic mismanagement.
October 15 
 2012 - British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond sign a deal on the terms and conditions of the referendum on Scottish independence, due to be held on September 18, 2014.
October 15 
 2016 - 150 nations meeting at the UNEP summit in Kigali, Rwanda, agree to slowly get rid of hydrofluorocarbons.
October 15 
 1931 – Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and former President of India (d. 2015)
October 13 
 1307  All Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
October 13 
 1582  Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
October 13 
 1775  The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
October 13 
 1792  In Washington, DC, the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.