the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
November 30 
 1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman Empire fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, present-day Turkey.
November 30 
 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow on Saint Andrew's Day, between Scotland and England.
November 30 
 1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive known to have reached a speed of 100 miles per hour.
November 30 
 1942 – World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga – A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
November 30 
 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
November 30 
 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the last King of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, British Governor of Uganda.
November 30 
 1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio.
November 30 
 1958 – French Equatorial Africa splits up into the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Chad and the Central African Republic, all of which becomes fully independent in 1960.
November 30 
 1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
November 30 
 1996 – The Stone of Scone is installed at Edinburgh Castle on its official return to Scotland from England.
November 30 
 2001 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway is arrested in Renton, Washington, ending a killing spree in which 49 people were murdered.
November 30 
 champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
November 30 
 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England when he becomes Archbishop of York.
November 30 
 2006 – Typhoon Durian causes a mud avalanche from the Mount Mayon volcano on Luzon, Philippines, killing 300 people.
November 30 
 1889 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1977)
November 30 
 Saint Andrew's Day – Christian apostle, and patron saint (several countries including Scotland and Barbados)
November 26 
 43 BC – The second Roman Triumvirate alliance is formed by Augustus, Marcus Aemelius Lepidus and Mark Antony.
November 26 
 783 - Asturian Queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her closest family and friends from retaking the throne from Mauretagus.
November 26 
 1161 - Battle of Caishi in China: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze River during the Jin-Song Wars.
November 26 
 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, affecting Great Britain, sinks 12 Royal Navy ships, killing over 1,500 people.
November 26 
 1778 – James Cook becomes the first European to navigate around the island of Maui, Hawaii, but doesn't find a suitable place to land.
November 26 
 1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln declares Thanksgiving Day a national holiday, to be observed on the fourth Thursday in November.
November 26 
 1865 – Spanish-South American War: In the naval Battle of Papudo, the Chilean fleet under Juan Williams Rebolledo defeats the Spanish.
November 26 
 1914 - British battleship Bulwark is destroyed by an explosion off Sheerness, killing 738 people, as only 12 of the people on board survive.
November 26 
 1918 - The Podgorica Assembly in Montenegro votes for a "Union of the People", declaring that it merges with Serbia.
November 26 
 1942 - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders gasoline rationing across the United States, starting on December 1.
November 26 
 1943 - World War II: The ship HMT Rohna is sunk by the German Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea north of Bejaia, Algeria.
November 26 
 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworths shop on New Cross High Street, London, killing 168 people.
November 26 
 1950 – Korean War: The People's Republic of China enters the war, launching a counterattack in North Korea against South Korea and UN troops.
November 26 
 1965 - In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix 1, on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
November 26 
 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1 millimetres) of rain fall in a minute, which is a world record.
November 26 
 1979 - A Boeing 707 of Pakistan International Airlines, crashes during take-off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board.
November 26 
 1982 – Larry Holmes wins the heavyweight boxing world title, defeating Randall Cobb in Houston, Texas.
November 26 
 1983 – In London, 6,800 gold bars, worth nearly £ 26 million, are stolen from the Brink's MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
November 26 
 1991 – Azerbaijan's national assembly abolishes the autonomous State of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomus Oblast, where the population is of mainly Armenian ethnicity, and renames all its cities back to their old names.
November 26 
 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to speak at the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
November 26 
 2000 - George W. Bush is confirmed as the winner of Florida's electoral votes in the disputed US Presidential Election, making him the next President of the United States instead of Al Gore, who had won the most votes overall.
November 26 
 2004 – In Ruzhou, China, a man enters a school dormitory and stabs 8 people to death, while he also wounds 4 others.
November 26 
 2008 – The 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks begin with killings and hostage takings in different parts of the city, committed by Islamist terrorists, of whom only one survives.
November 26 
 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on board an Atlas V rocket.
November 26 
 1903 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Jewish pianist, music teacher, Holocaust survivor and supercentenarian (d. 2014)
November 26 
 2008 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, world's oldest woman at the time of her death (b. 1893)
November 26 
 2013 - John Galbraith Graham (Araucaria), English crossword compiler and Church of England priest (b. 1921)
November 26 
 2018 - Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist and animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (b. 1961)
November 15 
 1532 - Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors led by Hernando de Soto meet Inca Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
November 15 
 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cuzco, capital of the Inca Empire, before plundering the city and setting it on fire.
November 15 
 1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike saw a distant peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
November 15 
 1864 – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
November 15 
 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is removed from power in a military coup.
November 15 
 1908 - Colonialism: King Leopold II of Belgium sells the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Belgian state.
November 15 
 1928 - The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
November 15 
 1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
November 15 
 1941 – Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
November 15 
 1943 – Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
November 15 
 1960 - Basketball: An NBA record is set when Elgin Baylor of the New York Knicks scored 71 points in a single game.
November 15 
 1966 - The Gemini 12 space probe splashed into the Atlantic Ocean, at the end of the Gemini program.
November 15 
 1966 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashed near Berlin, killing all the 3 people on board.
November 15 
 1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war.
November 15 
 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
November 15 
 1987 - Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas-9-14 jetliner, crashed in a snowstorm at Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, killing 28 people, with 54 surviving.
November 15 
 1990 – Producers admit that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
November 15 
 2000 - A chartered Antonov An-24 crashed after take-off from Luanda, Angola, killing over 40 people.
November 15 
 2000 - In India, the new state of Jharkhand is created, out of the southern part of the state of Bihar.
November 15 
 2012 - Xi Jinping is announced as the next general secretary of the Communist Party of China, expected to lead China until 2022.
November 15 
 2017 - It is announced that a postal survey in Australia resulted in 61.6% of participating voters supporting same-sex marriage.
November 15 
 2017 - The Scottish Government is allowed to introduce a minimum price for alcohol after a ruling following a long-running court case.
November 15 
 2017 - Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for 450 million United States dollars at auction in New York City, smashing the previous record for a work of art in such a sale.
November 15 
 2017 - Argentine submarine "ARA San Juan" was lost off the coast of southern Argentina, with 44 people on board.
November 15 
 2018 - In the United Kingdom, several government ministers resign over Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey.
November 15 
 1912 - Fosco Maraini, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic (d. 2004)
November 15 
 Japan – Shichi-Go-San – traditional rite of passage and festival day for three and seven year-old girls and three and five year-old boys
November 16 
 1632 – Thirty Years' War: Swedish troops defeat an imperial army under Albrecht von Wallenstein, but lose their king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
November 16 
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the patriots.
November 16 
 1793 - Reign of Terror: 90 anti-republican Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning in Nantes, France.
November 16 
 1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
November 16 
 1896 – First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York.
November 16 
 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
November 16 
 1920 - Australian airline Qantas is founded as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
November 16 
 1940 – World War II: In response to Germany leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
November 16 
 1973 - NASA launches Skylab 4 with three astronauts on board for an 84-day mission, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
November 16 
 1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, allowing for building work to begin on the Trans-Alaska oil Pipeline.
November 16 
 1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that the Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
November 16 
 1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister.
November 16 
 1997 - After 18 years of imprisonment, the People's Republic of China releases activist Wei Jingsheng for medical reasons.
November 16 
 2013 - Sachin Tendulkar, one of most famous cricketers in the world, retires from playing cricket after his last test match (India v. West Indies).
November 16 
 2018 - After several resignations in the British cabinet over Brexit, Stephen Barclay is appointed Brexit Secretary and former Home Secretary Amber Rudd becomes Work and Pensions Secretary.
November 16 
 1093 – Saint Margaret, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of King Malcolm III, mother of Kings Alexander I, David I and Edgar (b. 1045)
November 16 
 1985 - Omayra Sanchez, Colombian girl, high-profile victim of the Nevado del Ruiz volcanic eruption (b. 1972)
November 17 
 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
November 17 
 1800 – The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
November 17 
 1811 - José Miguel Carrera is sworn in as President of the Executive Junta of the government of Chile.
November 17 
 1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
November 17 
 1874 - British sailing ship Cospatrick catches fire in the South Atlantic Ocean and sinks, killing 467 people.
November 17 
 1878 - An assassination attempt is made on King Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante.
November 17 
 1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to Anti-Nazi protests after the death of Jan Opletal.
November 17 
 1947 - American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor.
November 17 
 1953 - The last people to have lived in the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated from their homes.
November 17 
 1962 - John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, DC region.
November 17 
 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to kill Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
November 17 
 1969 - Soviet and US negotiators meet in Helsinki to begin talks on limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
November 17 
 1970 - Soviet Luna programme: The Soviet Union launches the "Lunokhod 1" probe to the Moon, released by the Luna 17 aircraft.
November 17 
 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
November 17 
 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, a South Korean boxer, dies as a result from injuries he suffered in a Las Vegas boxing match against Ray Mancini.
November 17 
 It is part of the Fall of the Iron Curtain, and leads to Vaclav Havel becoming President on December 29.
November 17 
 1993 - In Nigeria, Sani Abacha comes to power through a military coup against the government of Ernest Shonekon.
November 17 
 1768 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
November 17 
 2018 - Eduard von Falz-Fein, Russian-born Liechtensteiner businessman, journalist and sportsman  (b. 1912)
November 18 
 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
November 18 
 1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
November 18 
 1738 - Augustus III is decided as the King of Poland, as the Peace of Vienna ends the War of the Polish Succession.
November 18 
 1803 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
November 18 
 1863 - King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November Constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark.
November 18 
 1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
November 18 
 1903 – The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
November 18 
 1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
November 18 
 1905 - British steamship Hilda strikes a reef off Brittany and sinks during a snowstorm, killing 125 people.
November 18 
 1909 - Two US warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including 2 Americans) are executed by order of Jose Santos Zelaya.
November 18 
 1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
November 18 
 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
November 18 
 1939 - Dutch ocean steamer Simon Bolivar runs over a German minefield near Harwich, exploding twice before sinking, killing 102 people.
November 18 
 1940 – German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
November 18 
 1943 – World War II: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131.
November 18 
 A few hours earlier, United States Congressman Leo Ryan, visiting to investigate the cult, was shot dead.
November 18 
 1987 – In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
November 18 
 1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for murder in regards to drug traffickers.
November 18 
 1991 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite and American academic Thomas Sutherland are released in Lebanon, where they had been held hostage; Waite since 1987 and Sutherland since 1985.
November 18 
 1991 - After an 87-day siege, the town of Vukovar, Croatia, surrenders to the Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serbian paramilitary forces.
November 18 
 1996 - Bernard Dowiyogo is elected President of Nauru over Lagumot Harris, and immediately ends diplomatic relations with France over its nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll, French Polynesia.
November 18 
 2003 - The Local Government Act of 2003 becomes effective in the United Kingdom, ending the controversial Anti-Homosexuality amendment.
November 18 
 2009 - 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification: Controversy is caused when French player Thierry Henry appears to have handled the ball in the run-up to a goal that sends France to the World Cup against the Republic of Ireland.
November 18 
 2019 - Gotabaya Rajapaksa becomes President of Sri Lanka; he later names his brother (and former President) Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister.
November 18 
 2019 - The United States government says that is does not consider the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be illegal.
November 18 
 1927 - Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Italian industrialist, politician, explorer, mountaineer and racing driver (b. 1871)
November 18 
 Venezuela – Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, also known as la Chinita, in the western state of Zulia
November 19 
 1404 - Severe flooding occurs in the Netherlands, as 3000 hectares of land are washed away, with the flood waters also completely wiping out the towns of Ijzendijke and Hugevliet.
November 19 
 1885 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa officially unifies the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
November 19 
 1887 - In the English Channel, Dutch ocean steamer W. A. Scholten sinks after a collision with a British freighter, killing 132 people.
November 19 
 1911 - The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, in which the entire crew, except the captain, is killed.
November 19 
 1941 - World War II: The warships HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran sink each other off Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and 77 Germans.
November 19 
 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under Georgy Zhukov launch Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the battle in the USSR's favour.
November 19 
 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin seeking a permanent peace settlement.
November 19 
 1979 – Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
November 19 
 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because they did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album.
November 19 
 1998 – The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
November 19 
 2002 – The Prestige oil tanker breaks apart near the coast of Galicia, Spain, causing a large oil spill.
November 19 
 2010 – Twenty-nine miners are trapped after an explosion in the Pike River Mine near Greymouth in New Zealand.
November 19 
 2014 - Nicola Sturgeon becomes the 5th, and first female, First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Alex Salmond.
November 19 
 2017 - Talks about forming a governing coalition fail in Germany, after September's election to the Bundestag.
December 10 
 1041 – Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
December 10 
 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
December 10 
 1510 - Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
December 10 
 1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
December 10 
 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
December 10 
 1861 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th State of the Confederacy.
December 10 
 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William T. Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
December 10 
 Resembling railway signals,  they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
December 10 
 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind.
December 10 
 1941 – World War II: Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse – The Royal Navy ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers.
December 10 
 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
December 10 
 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
December 10 
 1963 – The United States Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara.
December 10 
 1970 –  Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, "father of the Green Revolution", is given the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 10 
 1975 – Activist Andrei Sakharov is given the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner.