the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
March 10 
 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
March 10 
 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
March 10 
 1982 – The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
March 10 
 1987 – Reproductive rights: The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
March 10 
 1998 – American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
March 10 
 This leads to protests which eventually lead to his resignation in May of the same year, after over 32 years in power.
March 10 
 2000 – The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
March 10 
 2005 – In Edmonton, Alberta, the largest memorial (of its kind) in Canadian history was held for four RCMP constables who were gunned down March 3, 2005.
March 10 
 2008 – The New York Times reveals that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer patronised a prostitution service, and he resigns shortly after.
March 10 
 2015 - A court rules that the tune from Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' track Blurred Lines was copied from a song by Marvin Gaye.
March 10 
 2017 - South Korean President Park Geun-hye is officially removed from office by the country's constitutional court over a corruption scandal, following her impeachment three months earlier.
March 10 
 2017 - The United Nations warns that up to 20 million people could be affected by a famine affecting parts of Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
March 10 
 2019 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 103, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on a flight due to go to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 people on board.
March 10 
 1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (d. 2018)
March 30 
 1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin King, Charles I of Naples, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
March 30 
 1296 – Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town, slaughtering almost everyone, even those fleeing to the churches.
March 30 
 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
March 30 
 1814 - Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire the unification of Italy into being one country.
March 30 
 1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
March 30 
 1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
March 30 
 1863 – Prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is chosen as King George I of Greece.
March 30 
 1867 – Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
March 30 
 1899 - British passenger steamship Stella hits a rock off Guernsey in the English Channel, in thick fog, sinking within eight minutes.
March 30 
 1939 - The Henkel He 100 fighter aircraft sets a record airspeed of 745 kilometers per hour (463 miles per hour).
March 30 
 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
March 30 
 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western betrayal at the Yalta Conference.
March 30 
 1949 - Riots occur in Reykjavik after the decision of Iceland's government for the country to join NATO.
March 30 
 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
March 30 
 1972 – Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
March 30 
 1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., family friend of the Vice President.
March 30 
 1982 - Space Shuttle program: The STS-3 mission ends, with the landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, United States.
March 30 
 1987 – One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million.
March 30 
 2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, dies at Windsor Castle, aged 101, just seven weeks after her daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
March 30 
 2006 – Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian in space on board the Soyuz TMA-8 aircraft, to the International Space Station.
March 30 
 2018 - André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)
March 27 
 1513 – (not 1512 as often cited) – Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
March 27 
 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
March 27 
 1794 – The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six sailing frigates.
March 27 
 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
March 27 
 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
March 27 
 1871 – The first international rugby football match, Scotland v. England, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
March 27 
 1886 - Apache warrior Geronimo surrenders to the United States Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
March 27 
 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
March 27 
 1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.
March 27 
 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
March 27 
 1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a "warning strike", as 12 million workers walk out for 4 hours.
March 27 
 1989 – Generations, the first American soap opera to have an entire black family in its original core cast, commences telecasts on NBC.
March 27 
 One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
March 27 
 1996 – Yigal Amir is sentenced to life in prison for murdering Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
March 27 
 2002 - Nanterre Massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire on councilors at the end of a town council meeting, killing 8 councilors and injuring 19.
March 27 
 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
March 27 
 1905 - Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 1980)
March 27 
 1934 - Francis William Reitz, South African politician, 5th President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
March 25 
 1199 - King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
March 25 
 1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
March 25 
 1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled by the University of Oxford for producing the pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism.
March 25 
 1821 – Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
March 25 
 1865 – The "Claywater Meteorite" explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
March 25 
 1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C..
March 25 
 The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
March 25 
 1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg).
March 25 
 1960 – In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".
March 25 
 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully their 4-day 50 mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
March 25 
 1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
March 25 
 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
March 25 
 1972 – In Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Après toi" (After you).
March 25 
 1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
March 25 
 1988 - The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
March 25 
 1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
March 25 
 1992 - The Pakistan national cricket team wins the Cricket World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia.
March 25 
 1996 – An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana begins.
March 25 
 1996 – The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
March 25 
 2004 – Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of marijuana abuse by the their pilots.
March 25 
 2014 - The first cases of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa are officially reported in Guinea.
March 25 
 2015 - British Top Gear television presenter Jeremy Clarkson is fired by the BBC over a physical attack on a producer.
March 23 
 1400 - The Tran Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after 175 years in power, by Ho Quy Ly, a court official.
March 23 
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech – "give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
March 23 
 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
March 23 
 1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
March 23 
 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand.
March 23 
 This leads to the creation of the Republic of San Marco, under Prime Minister Daniele Manin, which lasts until August 23, 1849.
March 23 
 1862 - American Civil War: First Battle of Kernstown - start of Stonewall Jackson's valley campaign.
March 23 
 1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
March 23 
 1879 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topater, the first major battle of the war, is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Peru and Bolivia.
March 23 
 1889 – Land run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22.
March 23 
 1903 – The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes after much hard work.
March 23 
 1918 - World War I: Third day of the German spring offensive - the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is heavily defeated, with many being taken prisoner.
March 23 
 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Republican forces have their last major victory of the war in the Battle of Guadalajara.
March 23 
 1939 - The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of the Slovakian air force in the city of Spisska Nova Ves, killing 13 people.
March 23 
 1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
March 23 
 1962 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.
March 23 
 1963 – In London, United Kingdom, Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann win the eighth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Dansevise" (Dancing tune).
March 23 
 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
March 23 
 1972 - The United Tasmania Front is founded in Hobart, Tasmania, led by Richard Jones, as the world's first "Green Party".
March 23 
 1982 - Guatemala's government, led by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efrain Rios Montt.
March 23 
 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: US President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
March 23 
 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martinez.
March 23 
 1994 - Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia, when the pilot's 15-year-old son accidentally  disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
March 23 
 1998 - James Cameron's movie Titanic wins several Academy Awards on one night, making it one of Hollywood's most successful movies ever.
March 23 
 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
March 23 
 2001 – The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) (now World Wrestling Entertainment) purchases rival organization World Championship Wrestling (WCW) for an estimated $5 million.
March 23 
 2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
March 23 
 2003 - In Slovenia, referendums are held on memberships of the EU and NATO, with a majority in favor of both proposals.
March 23 
 2005 – The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
March 23 
 2013 - Pope Francis meets former Pope Benedict XVI at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, making it the first such meeting between a Pope and a former Pope.
March 23 
 2015 - A multi-vehicle pile-up, including a bus crash, kills 36 people in Harmey, 320 kilometers north of Lima.
March 23 
 1952 - Rex Tillerson, 69th United States Secretary of State and former Chief Executive of ExxonMobil
March 23 
 Western Christianity - Second-earliest possible date for Easter, last occurred on this date in 2008, next in 2160.
March 19 
 March 19 is usually the last day of the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere, and the last day of the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere.
March 19 
 1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates the throne, but soon becomes King again because of the Napoleonic Wars.
March 19 
 1885 - Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, Canada, starting the Northwest Rebellion.
March 19 
 1921 - Irish War of Independence: In Crossbarry, County Cork, Ireland, over 100 IRA volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
March 19 
 1941 - World War II: 99th Pursuit Squadron, Tuskegee Airmen, the first black unit of the United States Army Corps, is activated.
March 19 
 1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 crew members.
March 19 
 1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in New York City in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in color.
March 19 
 1970 – Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt meets East Germany's Prime Minister Willi Stoph in Erfurt in an attempt at closer relations.
March 19 
 1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
March 19 
 1982 – Argentine forces land on the island of South Georgia, two weeks before the invasion of the Falkland Islands.
March 19 
 2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations over human rights abuses and electoral fraud.
March 19 
 2004 - President of Taiwan Chen Shui-bian is shot and injured a day before the Presidential election.
March 19 
 2006 – In a controversial election, Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko wins 80% of the vote, leading to demonstrations in Minsk.
March 19 
 2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst  that is the farthest object visible to the eye (without using a telescope) is briefly observed.
March 19 
 2011 – 2011 Libyan protests: UN-authorised military intervention begins against Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya.
March 19 
 2013 - Over 50 people are killed in bomb attacks in Baghdad, to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.
March 19 
 2016 - Flydubai Flight 981 crashes shortly before landing at Rostov on Don, Southern Russia, killing all 62 people on board.
March 15 
 In the Roman calendar March 15 was known as the Ides of March, and it was on this day that Julius Caesar was murdered.
March 15 
 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
March 15 
 933 - After a 10-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut River.
March 15 
 1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
March 15 
 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
March 15 
 1781 - French astronomer Pierre Mechain discovers the spiral galaxies Messier 98, Messier 99 and Messier 100.
March 15 
 1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy.
March 15 
 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the Mexican border to pursue Pancho Villa.
March 15 
 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates himself and his son from the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
March 15 
 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
March 15 
 1933 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting an Austrofascist dictatorship.
March 15 
 1939 – World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
March 15 
 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
March 15 
 1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
March 15 
 1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
March 15 
 This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
March 15 
 1990 – The ethnic clashes of Targu Mures begin on the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
March 15 
 1991 – Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
March 15 
 1991 – Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
March 15 
 2003 - The Central African Republic's President Ange-Félix Patassé is removed in a coup by Francois Bozizé.
March 15 
 2004 – Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
March 15 
 2013 - A transition of power within the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China is completed, with Xi Jinping as President and Li Keqiang as Premier.
March 15 
 2019 - Two shootings happen in Christchurch, New Zealand during a white supremacist terrorist attack.
March 15 
 1854 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1901) (d. 1917)
March 14 
 44 BC - Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before Julius Caesar's killing, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
March 14 
 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and a force of Huguenots defeat forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
March 14 
 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in then-Spanish Louisiana.
March 14 
 1885 - The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
March 14 
 1899 - The Belgica expedition in Antarctica can continue again after just over a year of being stuck in pack-ice.
March 14 
 1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty is ratified by the United States Senate, giving the United States the right to build the Panama Canal.
March 14 
 It is later rejected by the Senate of Colombia, which at the time still included present-day Panama.
March 14 
 1915 - World War I: German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned by her crew, after being cornered by the Royal Navy off Chile.
March 14 
 1942 - Orvan Hess and John Bumstead become the first doctors in the US to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
March 14 
 1967 - The body of John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent resting place in Arlington National Cemetery.
March 14 
 1979 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident aircraft crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200 people.
March 14 
 The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe deems the election only partially democratic.
March 14 
 2004 – Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is elected Prime Minister of Spain, succeeding Jose Maria Aznar, whose response to the Madrid bombings is seen as a deciding factor in the outcome of the election.
March 14 
 2012 – The International Criminal Court finds the leader of the Union of Congolese patriots Thomas Lubanga guilty of war crimes.
March 14 
 2012 – United Kingdom: Perth (Scotland), Chelmsford (Essex, England) and Saint Asaph (Wales) become cities.
March 14 
 2015 - Cyclone Pam: A tropical cyclone sweeps across the Pacific island country of Vanuatu, with an unknown number of casualties, and extensive damage.
March 14 
 2016 - The European Space Agency and Roscosmos launch the joint Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.
March 14 
 2018 - Angela Merkel starts her fourth term as Chancellor of Germany after over five months of coalition negotiations.
March 14 
 2018 - The United Kingdom expels 23 Russian diplomats during an ongoing political row between the two countries over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.
March 14 
 2019 - Cyclone Idai makes landfall in Mozambique, leading to hundreds of deaths and a humanitarian crisis across the Southeast African region.
March 13 
 1862 – American Civil War:the US federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
March 13 
 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.