the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
May 5 
 1949 – The Council of Europe in Strasbourg is founded through the Treaty of London as the first European institution working for European integration.
May 5 
 Since 1964, May 5 has been designated Europe Day by the Council of Europe and is celebrated since then to commemorate its founding on 5 May 1949.
May 5 
 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
May 5 
 1972 - Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 people on board.
May 5 
 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
May 5 
 1984 - In Luxembourg, the Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi Ley.
May 5 
 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, DC after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.
May 5 
 1994 - The Signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
May 5 
 2002 – Jacques Chirac is elected to a second term as President of France, defeating far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round of the Presidential Election.
May 5 
 2005 – The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term.
May 5 
 2011 – The election to the Scottish Parliament takes place, with the Scottish National Party, under Alex Salmond, getting an overall majority, taking 69 of the 129 seats.
May 5 
 2019 - Presidential elections: Stevo Pendarovski is elected President of North Macedonia, while Laurentino Cortizo is elected President of Panama.
May 5 
 2019 - Aeroflot Flight 1492 bursts into flames on its return to Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 out of the 78 people on board.
May 5 
 1999 - Candy Candido, American radio performer, bass player, singer, animator and voice actor (b. 1913)
May 5 
 2012 - Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal, uncle of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1916)
May 4 
 1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
May 4 
 1471 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV of England defeats the Lancastrian Army under Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, who is killed in the battle.
May 4 
 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the "New World" between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
May 4 
 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to withdraw its allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.
May 4 
 1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: Battle of Seringapatam - Siege of Seringatapatam ends with the city being invaded and Tipu Sultan being killed by the besieging British army under command of George Harris.
May 4 
 1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge, linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in the Southwest of England.
May 4 
 1886 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, killing 8 people and injuring 60.
May 4 
 1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, against the Treaty of Versailles, which would transfer Chinese territory to Japan.
May 4 
 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the US aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi island in the Solomon Islands, which Japanese forces had invaded a day before.
May 4 
 1945 - World War II: At Lüneburg Heath, the North German army surrenders to British field marshal Bernard Montgomery.
May 4 
 1970 – Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard opens fire on student anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University.
May 4 
 1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
May 4 
 1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges.
May 4 
 1993 - A new democratic constitution takes effect in Andorra, ending its feudal system, which had lasted since 1278.
May 4 
 It becomes a co-principality with the elected President of France and the Catalan Bishop of Urgel as joint heads of state, with an elected Prime Minister as Head of Government.
May 4 
 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip.
May 4 
 2010 – The painting Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso is sold at auction, at a record price for a work of art.
May 4 
 2018 - It is announced that the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature will be delayed until October 2019 because of a sexual harassment and corruption scandal at the Swedish Academy.
May 4 
 2019 - The first of three days of coronation ceremonies takes place for King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.
May 4 
 1963 - Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
May 2 
 This day is the first day of the second third of the year, as well as the one third point of a common year because there are 121 days before and 243 days after it in common years.
May 2 
 The exact time the second third of the year starts is 4:00 p.m. In countries that use summer time the actual exact time of the midpoint in a common year is at 5:00 p.m for locations in the northern hemisphere, or 3:00 p.m. for locations in the southern hemisphere; this is when 121 days and 16 hours have elapsed and there are 243 days and 8 hours remaining.
May 2 
 In countries that use summer time, the second third starts at 1:00 a.m. on May 2, or 11:00 p.m. on May 1 in the southern hemisphere.
May 2 
 1536 - Anne Boleyn is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
May 2 
 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, to open up fur trade in Canada.
May 2 
 1829 - Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger declares the Swan River Colony in present-day Western Australia.
May 2 
 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville.
May 2 
 In the Julian calendar used at the time, this date was April 20, which is why the uprising is named after the month of April.
May 2 
 1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium creates the Congo Free State, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa.
May 2 
 1906 - Closing ceremony of the 1906 Olympics, which are not officially recognized by the IOC as part of the modern Olympic Games.
May 2 
 1946 - "Battle of Alcatraz" - In one of the most violent events on the prison island in San Francisco Bay - kills two guards and three inmates.
May 2 
 1952 - The first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its first flight from London to Johannesburg.
May 2 
 1953 - Hussein of Jordan becomes King, after his father, Talal of Jordan, is declared unfit to rule.
May 2 
 1964 - First successful climb of Shishapangma, the 14th-highest mountain in the world, and the smallest of those with a height over 8000 metres.
May 2 
 1972 - An early-morning fire at Sunshine Mine between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace, Indiana, kills 91 workers.
May 2 
 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
May 2 
 1995 - Croatian War of Independence: Serbian forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring 175.
May 2 
 1997 – Tony Blair takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after his Labour Party won the previous day's General Election with a landslide win over John Major's Conservative Party.
May 2 
 2011 – US President Barack Obama announces the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US military operation in Pakistan.
May 2 
 2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada wins an overall majority in parliament in Canada's election.
May 2 
 The Liberal Party of Canada finishes third, behind the New Democratic Party of Jack Layton, who dies a few months later.
May 2 
 2012 – A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for 120 million US Dollars, setting a new record for a work of art sold at auction.
May 2 
 2014 - Violent clashes in Odessa during the Ukrainian political crisis lead to a building fire in which at least 31 pro-Russian activists are killed.
May 2 
 1879 - James F. Byrnes, 49th United States Secretary of State and 104th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1972)
May 2 
 2016 - Afeni Shakur, African American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist, and Black Panther.
May 23 
 1533 - The marriage between King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
May 23 
 1568 - Dutch rebels, lead by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, starting the Eighty Years' War.
May 23 
 1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is executed by hanging in London.
May 23 
 1706 - Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeats a French army under Marshal Francois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi.
May 23 
 1844 - Declaration of the Bab: A merchant from Shiraz, Persia, announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that is later crushed by the Persian government.
May 23 
 This movement is considered to be a forerunner of the Baha'i faith, in which this date is celebrated as a holy day.
May 23 
 1846 - Mexican-American War: President of Mexico Mariano Paredes unofficially declares war on the United States.
May 23 
 1932 - In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a protest against the country's leader Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
May 23 
 1934 – The outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are shot dead by law officers in the Texas–Louisiana border region.
May 23 
 1945 - The Flensburg Government under Karl Doenitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces in the city of Flensburg in Northern Germany, next to the border with Denmark.
May 23 
 1960 – Israel announces the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was hiding in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
May 23 
 1967 - Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat, Israel, at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, to Israeli shipping.
May 23 
 1992 - Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, along with his wife and three bodyguards, is killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.
May 23 
 2004 - Part of the roof of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing 4 people.
May 23 
 2009 - Former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, while facing a corruption investigation.
May 23 
 2014 - The Glasgow School of Art, one of the most famous buildings in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, is heavily damaged by fire.
May 23 
 Host nation Austria finishes joint-bottom with Germany on 0 points, making it the worst performance of a host nation in the contest's history.
May 23 
 2019 - Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party wins India's general election, giving it a big parliamentary majority.
May 22 
 1455 – Wars of the Roses: In the First Battle of St. Albans, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
May 22 
 1629 - Thirty Years' War: The Treaty of Luebeck is signed by Ferdinand IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Christian IV of Denmark to end Danish intervention in the war.
May 22 
 1768 - Pentecost Island in present-day Vanuatu is reached by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, whose expedition members become the first Europeans to see it.
May 22 
 1819 – The SS Savannah sets sail from Savannah, Georgia to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
May 22 
 As he later becomes US President in 1861, he is the only President of the United States to be granted a patent.
May 22 
 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson - Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
May 22 
 Along with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, this is one of only two volcanic eruptions in the contiguous United States in the 20th Century.
May 22 
 1945 - Operation Paperclip: The United States Army forms plans to evacuate German scientists and engineers to the United States to help in the development of rocket technology.
May 22 
 1958 - Ethnic riots break out in Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, mostly against the minority Tamil population, killing 300 people over the following five days.
May 22 
 1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board, killing all 45 people on board.
May 22 
 1967 - The L'Innovation Department Store fire in Brussels, Belgium, kills 323 people and injures 150.
May 22 
 1968 - US U-boat USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sinks in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Azores, with 99 people on board.
May 22 
 1969 - The Apollo 10 mission's Snoopy module with Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan on board flies to within 15.6 kilometers of the Moon's surface.
May 22 
 2003 – The final manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was annotated by the composer, is auctioned off for $3.47 million.
May 22 
 2010 – An Air India Express Flight 812 airplane overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Mangalore, southern India, killing 158 people.
May 22 
 It is the tallest free-standing tower and second-tallest freestanding man-made structure in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
May 22 
 2013 - British soldier Lee Rigby is murdered on a Woolwich, London, street by two Islamic extremists.
May 22 
 2014 - General Prayuth Chan-ocha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup in Thailand after months of political unrest.
May 22 
 2015 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country where same-sex marriage is legalized through a referendum, with 62% of voters supporting the change.
May 22 
 2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly defeats far-right candidate Norbert Hofer in Austria's Presidential election, getting 50.3% compared to 49.7% for Hofer.
May 22 
 2017 - Manchester Arena bombing: A suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, killing 22 people.
May 22 
 2020 - Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Karachi, killing 97 people, leaving two survivors from the plane and eight injuries on the ground.
May 22 
 2012 - Flinder Anderson Khonglam, Indian physician and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Meghalaya (b. 1945)
May 31 
 1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada to mine fool's gold, used to pave the streets in London.
May 31 
 1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route crossing the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
May 31 
 1889 – Johnstown flood: A dam break causes a flash flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,000 people.
May 31 
 1902 - The Second Boer War ends, through the Treaty of Vereeniging, ensuring British control over South Africa.
May 31 
 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
May 31 
 1971 - Memorial Day in the United States is held on the last Monday in May for the first time, instead of the traditional May 30 date.
May 31 
 1973 - The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia.
May 31 
 2002 – The 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan begins, where the Senegal national football team beats the France national football team 1-0.
May 31 
 2010 – Israeli forces storm the Gaza-bound international flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 9 Turkish activists.
May 31 
 2013 - Asteroid (285263) 1998 GE-2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
May 31 
 2018 - US President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on products from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
May 31 
 2019 - Virginia Beach shooting: 12 government employees are shot dead by their colleague DeWayne Craddock in Virginia Beach, before he is killed in a shoot-out with police.
May 15 
 495 BC - A newly-built temple in honour of the god Mercury is dedicated in Ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine Hills.
May 15 
 392 - Roman Emperor Valentinian II mysteriously dies while advancing into Gaul (present-day France) against the Frankish usurper Arbogast.
May 15 
 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which allows, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
May 15 
 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is put on trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest.
May 15 
 1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion.
May 15 
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Virginia Convention tells its Continental Congress delegation to propose resolution of independence from Great Britain.
May 15 
 1849 - Troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.
May 15 
 A large number of Pomo Native Americans are slaughtered by the regiment of the United States Cavalry.
May 15 
 1851 - The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the gold was discovered three months earlier.
May 15 
 1860 - Battle of Calatafilmi in Sicily: Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Red Shirts" defeat the Army of the Kingdom of Naples.
May 15 
 1869 - In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Women's Suffrage Association.
May 15 
 1904 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur, China, and sinks Japanese ships Hatsuse and Yashima.
May 15 
 1904 - The cruiser "Yoshino" collides with armored cruiser "Kasaga" to the east of China and sinks, killing 329 out of the 419 people on board.
May 15 
 1905 - Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45 square kilometers), in what later becomes the downtown area, are auctioned off.
May 15 
 By 11:00am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, had walked off the job.
May 15 
 1919 - The Greek invasion of Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) occurs, in which the Greek army kills over 350 Turks.
May 15 
 1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly-trained and equipped Dutch surrender to Germany, beginning five years of occupation.
May 15 
 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Poljana is fought in Slovenia, as the last battle in Europe during the war.
May 15 
 1948 - The Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia all declare war on the newly declared State of Israel.
May 15 
 1957 - At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, the United Kingdom tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
May 15 
 1963 - Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9, with L. Gordon Cooper on board, is successful.
May 15 
 1966 - After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta, launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.
May 15 
 1970 - US President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington as the first female United States Army generals.
May 15 
 1972 – Governor George Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.
May 15 
 1974 - Ma'a lot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school, killing 31 people, including 22 schoolchildren.
May 15 
 1974 - Walter Scheel is elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany, a post he takes up on July 1.
May 15 
 1980 - West Germany's National Olympic Committee decides to join the United States in boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
May 15 
 1990 - The Vincent van Gogh painting A Portrait of Dr. Gachet sells for 82.5 million US Dollars, a then-record for a work of art sold at auction.
May 16 
 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
May 16 
 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
May 16 
 1771 - Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called the "Regulators" occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
May 16 
 1812 - Russian field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War.
May 16 
 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
May 16 
 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Champion Hill - Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant defeat Confederate forces under John C. Pemberton.
May 16 
 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel (coin).
May 16 
 1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
May 16 
 1874 - A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys most of four villages, killing 139 people.
May 16 
 1888 - Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electrical power over long distances.
May 16 
 1918 – The Sedition Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense.
May 16 
 1919 – United States Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
May 16 
 1932 - On the return from its first voyage, French luxury steamer Georges Philippar catches fire in the Gulf of Aden, killing 54 people.
May 16 
 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
May 16 
 1966 – Two extremely influential rock albums are released on the same day: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
May 16 
 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favour of merging with India.
May 16 
 1988 – A report by American Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 16 
 1991 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom becomes the first monarch to speak in front of the United States Congress.
May 16 
 1995 – The leader of Aum Shinrikyo, Shoko Asahara, is arrested for his role in the Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo subway.
May 16 
 2009 – In Moscow, Alexander Rybak wins the 54th Eurovision Song Contest for Norway, scoring a record number of points under the then-existing scoring system, 387.
May 16 
 2014 - The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, under Narendra Modi, wins India's elections, achieving an overall parliamentary majority and defeating the ruling Indian National Congress.
May 16 
 1801 – William H. Seward, 24th United States Secretary of State and 12th Governor of New York (died 1872)
May 16 
 1824 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (died 1920)
May 16 
 1845 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian biologist, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)
May 16 
 1920 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (born 1824)
May 16 
 1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English chemist, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1861)
May 10 
 70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
May 10 
 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
May 10 
 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III.