the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
April 26 
 1923 – Future King George VI of the United Kingdom marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
April 26 
 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic.
April 26 
 1942 – The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
April 26 
 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
April 26 
 1956 - SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
April 26 
 1960 – The April Revolution in South Korea leads to the resignation of President Rhee Syng-man, who had ruled for 12 years.
April 26 
 1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario has to be abandoned after 15 minutes after rioting.
April 26 
 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangam-do, South Korea.
April 26 
 1986 – In Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, a nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
April 26 
 Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado).
April 26 
 2000 – The Andorra national football team scores its first-ever win; 2-0 against the Belarus national football team.
April 26 
 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
April 26 
 2012 – Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor is found guilty of war crimes for his role in supplying weapons during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
April 26 
 2013 - The Bank of England announces that Winston Churchill will feature on its five-pound bank notes from 2016.
April 26 
 2016 - A court ruling finds that the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed.
April 26 
 1900 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (someone who studies earthquakes), creator of the Richter scale (died 1985)
April 24 
 1704 - The first regular newspaperin Colonial America, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
April 24 
 1715 - Following defeat in the naval Battle of Fehmarn, Sweden sinks its own flagship, Hedvig Sophia, to prevent Denmark from taking it.
April 24 
 1895 - Joshua Slocum sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts on his boat Spray, on his way to becoming the first person to sail single-handedly around the world.
April 24 
 1914 - The Franck-Hertz Experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
April 24 
 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
April 24 
 1916 - Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from the uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organize a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
April 24 
 1922 - The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield, Oxfordshire, England and Cairo, Egypt, begins operations.
April 24 
 Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other, for the next five years.
April 24 
 1933 - Nazi Germany begins with the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society in Magdeburg.
April 24 
 1955 - End of the Bandung Conference in Indonesia: 29 non-aligned Asian and African countries condemn colonialism, racism and the Cold War.
April 24 
 1957 - The BBC first broadcasts the long-running astronomy TV programme The Sky at Night, presented by Patrick Moore until his death in 2012.
April 24 
 2004 – In Cyprus, a referendum on reunification results in the Turkish population mainly voting yes, but the Greek population mainly voting no, meaning that only Greek Cyprus joins the EU the following week.
April 24 
 2013 - 1,127 people are killed when an eight-storey clothing factory building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapses.
April 24 
 2016 - The candidates of the traditional political parties are rejected in Austria's Presidential election, with Alexander Van der Bellen and Norbert Hofer advancing to the second round.
April 24 
 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German  doctor,  won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  (b. 1895)
April 27 
 33 BC - Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother of future Roman Emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as Governor in one of the Provinces of Hispania.
April 27 
 711 - Islamic Conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
April 27 
 1296 – First Scottish War of Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
April 27 
 1522 - Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
April 27 
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ridgefield - A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
April 27 
 1813 - War of 1812: US troops capture the capital city of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present-day Toronto).
April 27 
 1950 - Apartheid: in South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating (separating) Black people from White people.
April 27 
 1987 – The US Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States over revelations of possible war crimes committed by him during World War II.
April 27 
 1993 – Several members of the Zambia national football team are killed in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon.
April 27 
 1994 – South Africa holds its first free and equal elections, with Nelson Mandela being elected President.
April 27 
 2007 – The Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in Tallinn is removed by Estonian authorities, amidst tensions with Russia.
April 27 
 1961 - Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality, model, politician and writer (d. 1994)
April 27 
 King's Day in the Netherlands from 2014 (to be observed on April 26 when the 27th is a Sunday, including in 2014 itself)
April 18 
 1848 - An American victory at the Battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for the invasion of Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
April 18 
 1888 - British passenger steamer State of Florida sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after a collision with a sailing ship, killing 130 people.
April 18 
 1906 – 1906 San Francisco earthquake: San Francisco, California is largely destroyed by a major earthquake, and subsequent fires.
April 18 
 Estimates suggest that 3,000 people have died, some of them after Mayor Eugene Schmitz orders a shoot-to-kill policy against looters.
April 18 
 1912 - Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic sinking to New York City.
April 18 
 1915 - French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
April 18 
 1955 - Representatives of 29 nations meet in Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
April 18 
 1958 - A US Federal Court rules that controversial poet Ezra Pound can be released from an insane asylum.
April 18 
 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe becomes independent from the UK, with Canaan Banana as its first President.
April 18 
 1988 - The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian forces in the Iran-Iraq War.
April 18 
 1996 – At least 106 civilians in Lebanon are killed when Israeli Defense Forces shell a UN compound in Qana.
April 18 
 1996 - Islamic fundamentalists carry out a terror attack on a hotel in Cairo, killing 18 Greek tourists, who they mistook for Israelis.
April 18 
 2004 – Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero orders the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.
April 18 
 2005 - Start of the Conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II; Joseph Alois Ratzinger is chosen the next day and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
April 18 
 2017 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May calls for an early general election for June 8.
April 18 
 2019 - Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee is shot and killed during rioting in the city of Londonderry.
April 19 
 531 - Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqaah, Syria.
April 19 
 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent state.
April 19 
 1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General, is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
April 19 
 1839 - The Treaty of London creates Belgium fully as a kingdom, also separating Luxembourg from Belgium.
April 19 
 1861 - American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861 - A Pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
April 19 
 1865 - The funeral of Abraham Lincoln takes place in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
April 19 
 1903 - The Kishinev pogrom begins in present-day Moldova, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western World.
April 19 
 1954 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognizes Urdu and Bengali as the country's official languages.
April 19 
 1960 - Students in South Korea hold a nationwide democracy protest against President Rhee Syng-man, who resigns a week later.
April 19 
 1984 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold become the official national colors.
April 19 
 1993 – The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ends as fire breaks out, killing 82 cult members, including David Koresh.
April 19 
 1993 - George S. Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, is killed along with six others, when an airplane crashes in Iowa.
April 19 
 2000 - A Philippine Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashes on landing at the island of Sanal in the Philippines, killing all 131 people on board.
April 19 
 2013 - Aftermath of 2013 Boston Marathon bombings: A police officer is shot dead in the early hours of the morning, before one of the suspects is killed in shoot-out with police, after which a lock-down is enforced in Boston.
April 19 
 2015 - A migrant boat sinks off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing an estimated 700 people, making this the deadliest such tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea to date.
April 19 
 2018 - Mswati III of Swaziland, on his 50th birthday, announces a change to the country's official name from "Kingdom of Swaziland" to "Kingdom of eSwatini".
April 19 
 1928 - Azlan Shah of Perak, 9th Yang-di Pertuan Agong (Head of State) of Malaysia and Sultan of Perak (d. 2014)
April 22 
 238 - Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws Emperor Maximus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
April 22 
 1529 – The Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
April 22 
 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
April 22 
 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
April 22 
 1864 – The United States Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
April 22 
 1889 – Oklahoma land rush: President of the United States Benjamin Harrison opens the Unassigned Lands in what is now central Oklahoma to white settlement.
April 22 
 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
April 22 
 1912 - Pravda begins publication in Saint Petersburg, known as the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
April 22 
 1914 – Babe Ruth, age 19, pitches his first professional game for the minor league Baltimore Orioles.
April 22 
 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
April 22 
 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
April 22 
 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea.
April 22 
 1945 – World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
April 22 
 1946 – The first installment of the popular Japanese comic strip, Sazae-san, is published in the Fukunichi Shimbun.
April 22 
 1971 – John Kerry, dressed in combat fatigues, testifies on his views of the Vietnam War before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
April 22 
 1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
April 22 
 1975 – Barbara Walters signs a five-year $5 million contract with the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), becoming the highest paid television newsperson.
April 22 
 1979 – Brent Mydland performs his first show with the Grateful Dead at Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California.
April 22 
 1993 - The racially motivated murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence is committed in Southeast London.
April 22 
 1997 – A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages.
April 22 
 One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 rebels are slain.
April 22 
 2000 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
April 22 
 2010 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill: After an explosion two days earlier, and a subsequent fire, the BP and Transocean operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon sinks.
April 22 
 2012 – French Presidential Election: Incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy goes through to the second round on May 6, along with François Hollande, who finishes ahead of him.
April 22 
 2018 - A bomb attack on a voter registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 57 people.
April 22 
 1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, Swedish royal, father of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (d. 1947)
April 21 
 1509 – Henry VIII of England becomes King of England after the death of his father, Henry VII of England.
April 21 
 1526 - The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty in Northern India, Ibrahim Lodi, is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
April 21 
 1734 - The shorter of the two Golden Horns of Gallehus, Denmark's most famous archaeological finds, is discovered.
April 21 
 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
April 21 
 1863 – Quantrill's Raiders launch a reprisal raid Lawrence, Kansas in the Battle of Lawrence, killing a number of civilians.
April 21 
 1898 – Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
April 21 
 1908 – North Pole dispute: Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, almost a year before Robert Peary claims to have reached it, on April 6, 1909.
April 21 
 1912 – The New York Giants and New York Yankees play an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
April 21 
 1914 - Ypiranga Incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the United States Navy near Veracruz.
April 21 
 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed by Allied over Vaux sur Somme in France.
April 21 
 1934 - The "Surgeon's Photograph", allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, appears in the Daily Mail.
April 21 
 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
April 21 
 1956 – Elvis Presley's song "Heartbreak Hotel" becomes the "King's" first song to reach the top of the Cash Box magazine music charts.
April 21 
 At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
April 21 
 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
April 21 
 1967 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
April 21 
 1970 - The Principality of Hutt River declares itself independent from Australia, and is one of world's most famous micronations.
April 21 
 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
April 21 
 1982 - Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher in baseball to record 300 saves.
April 21 
 1985 –  Ayrton Senna wins the first of 41 Formula One championship races at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril.
April 21 
 1987 – The Tamil Tigers is blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 106 people.
April 21 
 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
April 21 
 1992 – U.S. death penalty: After 13 years on death row, convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris is executed in California's gas chamber.
April 21 
 2002 – French Presidential Election: In the first round Jacques Chirac comes through, along with National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
April 21 
 Rita Jeptoo wins the women's race, while Meb Keflezighi wins the men's race, becoming the first US citizen to win it in over 30 years.
April 21 
 2019 - Sri Lanka Easter bombings: More than 350 people are killed in bomb attacks on Easter Sunday targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, most of them in or near Colombo.
April 29 
 711 -Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
April 29 
 1429 – Battle of Orléans: French troops led by Joan of Arc lifted the English Siege of Orleans, a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
April 29 
 1521 - Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Vasteras.
April 29 
 1587 - Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cadiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
April 29 
 1854 – The Ashmun Institute is officially begins as the first college for African American students.
April 29 
 1882 - The Elektromote, a forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Eduard Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
April 29 
 1916 – Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
April 29 
 1945 – Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and decides that Admiral Karl Dönitz will be the next ruler.
April 29 
 1946 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are accused of war crimes.
April 29 
 1967 – After refusing to go into the United States Army the day before (because of religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
April 29 
 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces go into Cambodia to hunt NLF soldiers.
April 29 
 1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited word copies of White House tape recordings that deal with the scandal.
April 29 
 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin to leave Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover.
April 29 
 1986 - Fire at central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages over 400,000 books and other items.
April 29 
 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the release of police officers charged with too much strength and force in the beating of Rodney King.
April 29 
 1992 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores 56 points in a playoff game against the Miami Heat in what is considered one of the greatest games of his career.
April 29 
 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, and makes the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons illegal.
April 29 
 2002 – The United States is re-elected (chosen again) to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
April 29 
 2011 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
April 29 
 2013 - NBA player Jason Collins announces that he is openly gay, the first American sportsman to come out as gay while still active.
April 29 
 2019 - The Indonesian government announces plan to move the country's capital city away from Jakarta.
April 30 
 313 - Battle of Tzillarum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
April 30 
 1863 - A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man at Hacienda Camaron, Mexico.
April 30 
 1885 - Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation near Niagara Falls.
April 30 
 1908 - Japanese small cruiser Matsushima sinks after a munitions explosion near Taiwan, killing 206 out of the 347 men on board.
April 30 
 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
April 30 
 1927 - The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
April 30 
 1941 – British steam freighter Nerissa is torpedoed near Rockall by a German U-boat, causing it to sink, with the loss of 207 lives.
April 30 
 1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat - Submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
April 30 
 1945 – World War II: One day after getting married, Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide.
April 30 
 1963 - Fehmarnsundbroen, a bridge connecting the island of Fehmarn to mainland Denmark, is opened to traffic.
April 30 
 1980 – Beatrix becomes Queen of the Netherlands, after the decision of her mother, Queen Juliana to abdicate the throne.
April 30 
 1985 - US entrepreneur Dick Bass climbs Mount Everest, becoming the first person to successfully climb the "Seven Summits", the highest peaks on each continent.
April 30 
 1993 – Tennis player Monica Seles is stabbed by an obsessed fan of her rival Steffi Graf, during a tournament in Germany.
April 30 
 1994 – Austrian Formula 1 driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash, while practising for the San Marino Grand Prix, at which fellow driver Ayrton Senna is killed the next day.
April 30 
 1995 - Greenpeace activists occupy the Shell Oil Company-owned oil platform Brent Spar between Shetland and Norway, to protest against its planned sinking in the North Sea.
April 30 
 2004 - US media release graphic photographs of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
April 30 
 2006 – Along with her brother, Swiss ski racer Corinne Rey-Bellet is shot dead by her husband, who commits suicide a short time later.