the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
May 10 
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
May 10 
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic.
May 10 
 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy.
May 10 
 1849 - The Astor Place riot occurs in Manhattan after a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing over 25 people.
May 10 
 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson dies of his injuries after the previous week's Battle of Chancellorsville.
May 10 
 1865 – American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky (he lingered until his death on June 6).
May 10 
 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah).
May 10 
 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
May 10 
 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, United States).
May 10 
 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
May 10 
 1940 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe mistakenly bombs the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in the southwest of Germany, killing 57 people.
May 10 
 1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
May 10 
 1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
May 10 
 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
May 10 
 1969 – The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota, is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
May 10 
 1994 – The U.S. state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
May 10 
 1996 – A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history.
May 10 
 Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
May 10 
 2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
May 10 
 2005 – A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from US President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
May 10 
 2005 – Designed by Peter Eisenman, a memorial to Jews killed in the Holocaust is unveiled in Berlin.
May 10 
 2013 - One World Trade Center in New York City becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
May 10 
 2014 - Conchita Wurst (Tom Neuwirth) of Austria wins the 59th Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".
May 10 
 2019 - The United States' 25% tariff increase on 200 million United States dollars of Chinese imports takes effect.
May 10 
 1922 - David Azrieli, Canadian-Israeli tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (d. 2014)
May 11 
 330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
May 11 
 868 - A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest-known dated printed book.
May 11 
 1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
May 11 
 1745 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
May 11 
 1812 – British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is shot and killed by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
May 11 
 1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory B. Laxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westward from Sydney.
May 11 
 1846 - President of the United States James K. Polk asks for a declaration of war against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
May 11 
 1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
May 11 
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern – Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
May 11 
 1894 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
May 11 
 1907 - 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in California.
May 11 
 1934 – Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
May 11 
 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
May 11 
 1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
May 11 
 1967 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
May 11 
 1969 – Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow – Near the Laos border, American and South Vietnamese forces fight North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "Hamburger Hill").
May 11 
 1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed.
May 11 
 1983 - Aberdeen F.C. defeats Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 11 
 1985 – 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.
May 11 
 1995 – In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
May 11 
 1996 – On what was until that point the deadliest day on Mt. Everest, 8 climbers are killed in a snowstorm.
May 11 
 1996 – After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
May 11 
 1997 – IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
May 11 
 1998 – Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
May 11 
 2003 – Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 19th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.
May 11 
 2013 - Over 40 people are killed in a bomb attack in Turkey's Hatay province, near the Syrian border.
May 11 
 2013 - Wigan Athletic F.C. wins its first FA Cup after a surprise win over Manchester City in the final, as the first surprise result in the final for a number of years.
May 11 
 2015 - Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes the most expensive painting to sell at auction, being bought for $179.3 million.
May 11 
 1963 – Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
May 14 
 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
May 14 
 1610 - King Henry IV of France is murdered, leaving the throne to his son, King Louis XIII of France, who dies exactly 33 years later, on the same date.
May 14 
 1747 – A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
May 14 
 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
May 14 
 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
May 14 
 1861 – The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
May 14 
 1868 - Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko.
May 14 
 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
May 14 
 1897 - Stars and Stripes Forever id first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
May 14 
 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
May 14 
 1914 – The Hellenic Holocaust starts, according to an official document from Talaat Bey (Minister of the Interior) to the prefect of Smyrna.
May 14 
 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
May 14 
 1939 – Lina Medina, from Peru, becomes the world's youngest alleged mother in medical history at the age of five.
May 14 
 1948 – Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
May 14 
 1948 – The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, northern England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
May 14 
 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
May 14 
 1955 - The United States carries out Operation Wigwam - atomic bomb tests around 900 kilometers southwest of San Diego, California in the Pacific Ocean.
May 14 
 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
May 14 
 1988 - Carrollton Bus Collision: A drunk driver travelling the wrong way on the Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group.
May 14 
 1995 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
May 14 
 1998 – After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television sitcom Seinfeld is aired on NBC.
May 14 
 2004 – The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
May 14 
 2004 – Piers Morgan is fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
May 14 
 2004 – Insurgents or terrorists in Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several liters of binary precursors for sarin.
May 14 
 The shell was designed to mix the chemicals as it spun during flight and the explosion failed to mix them properly.
May 14 
 Although it only resulted in a small release of sarin, two U.S. soldiers are treated for exposure after displaying the early symptoms.
May 14 
 2005 – Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
May 14 
 2005 – Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City.
May 14 
 2012 - Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near the airport in Jamsom, Nepal, after a failed turnaround, killing 15 people.
May 14 
 2013 - President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the Northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.
May 14 
 2016 - Crimean-Tatar artist Jamala wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 for Ukraine with the ballad 1944, in Stockholm.
May 14 
 2017 - An election in Germany's most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia results in the SPD-Green Party coalition under Hannelore Kraft losing its majority.
May 14 
 2018 - Israeli troops kill 58 Palestinian protesters on the same day the Israel's new United States Embassy is opened in Jerusalem to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel.
May 14 
 1945 – Yochanan Vollach, former Israeli football player and current president of the Maccabi Haifa association
May 21 
 1471 - Henry VI of England, the last King from the House of Lancaster, is murdered in the Tower of London on the orders of King Edward IV of England.
May 21 
 1809 - Napoleonic Wars: First day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling - Austria, under Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and France, under Napoleon Bonaparte, meet in battle, with Napoleon's side winning the next day.
May 21 
 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army closes off the last escape route  from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
May 21 
 1911 - President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and revolutionary Francisco I. Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez.
May 21 
 1924 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
May 21 
 1932 - Amelia Earhart is forced by bad weather to land near Derry, Northern Ireland, after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 21 
 1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
May 21 
 1939 - Canada's National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI of the United Kingdom and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
May 21 
 1946 - Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with a demon core at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States.
May 21 
 1990 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge to become the Republic of Yemen.
May 21 
 2011 - American pastor Harold Camping predicted the end of the world to begin on this date, with the rapture, supposedly leading to the end itself on October 21.
May 21 
 2013 - Far-right French historian Dominique Venner commits suicide by gunshot in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
May 21 
 1860 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor, won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, inventor of the electrocardiogram (d. 1927)
May 21 
 1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1989)
May 27 
 1644 - Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun Dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer Beijing.
May 27 
 1799 - War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the Northeast Swiss plateau because of the town's location at the junction of the seven cross-roads.
May 27 
 1896 – The F5-strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
May 27 
 1915 - Off Sheerness, minelayer Princess Irene runs over laid mines and explodes, killing 400 people.
May 27 
 1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
May 27 
 1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
May 27 
 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
May 27 
 1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
May 27 
 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
May 27 
 1939 – DC Comics prints its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
May 27 
 1940 – World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk.
May 27 
 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
May 27 
 1942 - World War II: Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich is wounded in Prague and dies over a week later.
May 27 
 1960 – In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
May 27 
 1963 – Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
May 27 
 1965 – Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombing of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
May 27 
 1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster near Wuppertal, then-West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25.
May 27 
 1975 - The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest-ever road accident.
May 27 
 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: air force and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
May 27 
 1995 – In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed (not able to move) from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
May 27 
 1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and agrees to a cease-fire in the war.
May 27 
 1997 – The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
May 27 
 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
May 27 
 1999 – The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands charges Slobodan Milošević and 4 others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
May 27 
 2006 – An earthquake in Java kills over 6,600 people and destroys the cities of Bantul and Yogyakarta.
May 27 
 2015 - Football's world governing body FIFA is accused by US law enforcement officials of bribery totaling hundreds of dollars over more than 20 years, including a scheme involving the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
May 27 
 2016 - Barack Obama becomes the first serving President of the United States to visit Hiroshima and meet victims of the atomic bomb.
May 27 
 2017 - A computer failure at British Airways leads to the airline's flights around the world being cancelled.
May 27 
 1893 – Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian, world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 (d. 2005)
May 27 
 1923 – Henry Kissinger, American politician, 37th United States Secretary of State, received the Nobel Peace Prize
May 27 
 1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (executed) (b. 1374)
May 27 
 1986 – Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
May 26 
 17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero following several battle victories over Germanic tribes.
May 26 
 1573 - The Battle of Haarlemmermeer takes place, as a naval battle in the Dutch War of Independence.
May 26 
 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Battle of Montijo - Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory.
May 26 
 1770 - The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
May 26 
 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the United States Congress, and is signed by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
May 26 
 1908 - The first commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in what is then known as Persia.
May 26 
 1938 - In the United States, the House of Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
May 26 
 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
May 26 
 1981 - An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45.
May 26 
 1998 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
May 26 
 2002 - The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with the support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, killing 14 people and injuring 11.
May 26 
 2004 – US Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
May 26 
 2017 - Militants carry out a shooting at a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt, killing 28 people.
May 26 
 2018 - Real Madrid C.F. defeat Liverpool F.C. 3-1 in the UEFA Champions League final, winning the competition for the third time in-a-row, and meaning that Madrid-based teams have won both major European club trophies in the season.
May 26 
 2019 - The 2019 elections to the European Parliament are completed; Far-right and Green political parties increase their number of seats.
May 25 
 1524 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, which declares Martin Luther an outlaw.
May 25 
 1644 - Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus  and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan Pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital, Beijing.
May 25 
 1895 - The playwright, novelist and poet Oscar Wilde is convicted of "Committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to two years in prison.
May 25 
 1914 - The United Kingdom House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act of 1914 for devolution to Ireland.
May 25 
 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties one, in track and field athletics in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
May 25 
 1955 – A night-time Force 5 tornado strikes the small city in Udall, Kansas, killing 80 people; it is the deadliest tornado ever to strike Kansas.
May 25 
 1955 – First successful climb of Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), the third-highest mountain in the world on the India-Nepal border, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
May 25 
 1961 – John F. Kennedy announces before the United States Congress that the United States should set the target of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s decade.
May 25 
 1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first football team from the UK to win the European cup.
May 25 
 1969 - Thor Heyerdahl sets off from Morocco on his Papyrus boat Ra, in an attempt to prove that America was directly settled from Africa.
May 25 
 1977 - The People's Republic of China's government removes its 10-year ban on the work of William Shakespeare.
May 25 
 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas C-10, crashes during take-off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport, killing 273 people (271 on the plane and 2 on the ground).
May 25 
 This becomes one of the most notorious missing-child cases in US history and leads to Ronald Reagan declaring May 25 National Missing Children's Day in 1983.
May 25 
 1981 – In Riyadh the Guld Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
May 25 
 1997 – A coup in Sierra Leone removes Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and replaces him with Johnny Paul Koromah as leader.
May 25 
 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer of Boulder, Colorado becomes the first person with a visual impairment to reach the top of Mount Everest.
May 25 
 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611, a Boeing 747-200, breaks apart in mid-flight and plunges into the Taiwan Strait, killing 225 people.
May 25 
 2013 - Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.