the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
May 25 
 2013 - FC Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the first UEFA Champions League final to be contested by two German teams.
May 25 
 Far-right parties make strong gains and finish in the lead in some countries, such as Nigel Farage's UKIP (UK), Marine Le Pen's National Front (France) and Danish People's Party (Denmark).
May 25 
 2018 - A referendum in the Republic of Ireland results in an-almost two-thirds majority (66.4%) voting to change the country's strict abortion laws.
May 25 
 1895 - Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman soldier, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator and historian (b. 1822)
May 25 
 2014 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, last Communist leader of Poland (b. 1923)
May 25 
 National Missing Children's Day (United States), after the disappearance of Etan Patz on this day in 1979
May 17 
 1861 - Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates the first color photograph, an image of a tartan ribbon.
May 17 
 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.
May 17 
 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
May 17 
 1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
May 17 
 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
May 17 
 1967 – Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
May 17 
 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
May 17 
 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
May 17 
 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
May 17 
 1980 - On the eve of Presidential elections, Maoist Guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, Peru, beginning the internal conflict in Peru.
May 17 
 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
May 17 
 1987 – Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by a missile from an Iraqi Mirage fighter killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
May 17 
 1990 – The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from ICD - the origin of the International Day Against Homophobia.
May 17 
 By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops with M-16 rifles open fire.
May 17 
 2007 - Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments.
May 17 
 2014 - Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia both declare a State of Emergency after experiencing their worst flooding in over 100 years, killing at least 25 people.
July 3 
 533 – Battle of the Tenth Milestone: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.
July 3 
 987 – Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
July 3 
 1250 – Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
July 3 
 1721 - Norwegian Christian missionary Hans Egede arrives in Greenland expecting to convert descendants of Vikings, not knowing of their mysterious disappearance from there.
July 3 
 1754 – George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War.
July 3 
 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
July 3 
 1863 – American Civil War: The final and bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the besieged Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant in Pickett's Charge.
July 3 
 1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
July 3 
 1886 - Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen - the first purpose-built automobile.
July 3 
 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete is destroyed by the United States Navy at Santiago de Cuba.
July 3 
 1938 – World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
July 3 
 1940 - World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands, the French fleet of the Atlantic based near El Kebir is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar.
July 3 
 1944 - World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
July 3 
 1953 – Austrian Hermann Buhl climbs the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, at an elevation of 8,125 metres.
July 3 
 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
July 3 
 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
July 3 
 1969 - The biggest-ever rocket explosion occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and destroys its Launchpad.
July 3 
 1976 – Adolfo Suárez is chosen by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to lead a transitional government as Prime Minister of Spain.
July 3 
 1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
July 3 
 2001 – A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
July 3 
 2004 – At Wimbledon, Maria Sharapova, then-aged 17, wins her first singles' tennis title, defeating Serena Williams in the final.
July 3 
 2011 – Novak Djokovic wins his first Wimbledon singles' title, defeating Rafael Nadal in a four-set match.
July 3 
 2017 - A bus crashes into a lorry in Northern Bavaria, Germany, and bursts into flames, killing 18 people.
July 3 
 1945 – Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, former Speaker of the UK House of Commons (d. 2018)
July 3 
 1970 - Arlene Foster, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and former First Minister of Northern Ireland
July 3 
 1937 - Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (b. 1877)
July 3 
 2015 - Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1924)
July 6 
 He is known as "Richard the Lionheart" and spends most of his reign abroad fighting in the Crusades.
July 6 
 1348 - Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
July 6 
 1411 - Ming Dynasty China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese King, captured during the Ming-Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
July 6 
 1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo - Charles VIII, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Holy League.
July 6 
 A succession crisis initially puts Lady Jane Grey on the throne for nine days, before Edward's sister becomes Queen Mary I of England.
July 6 
 1557 - King Philip II of Spain, consort of Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France.
July 6 
 1630 - Thirty Years' War: 4,000 Swedish troops under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden land in Pomerania on what is now Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
July 6 
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga - After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
July 6 
 1779 - Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
July 6 
 1801 - First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
July 6 
 1887 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawai'i, is forced at gunpoint by the Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution, giving the Americans more power in Hawai'i, while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
July 6 
 1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injuring 200.
July 6 
 1917 - World War I: Arabian troops under T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibn Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.
July 6 
 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Brunete begins with Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
July 6 
 1950 - The Oder-Neisse Line is determined as the border between Poland and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
July 6 
 1988 – In the North Sea, a major fire occurs on the Piper Alpha oil rig off the east coast of Scotland, killing 167 people.
July 6 
 1989 - Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving was driven off the edge of a cliff.
July 6 
 2003 – Tennis: Roger Federer wins his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Mark Philippoussis of Australia in three sets.
July 6 
 2008 – Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon, ending Roger Federer's run of five consecutive titles there.
July 6 
 2013 - A 73-car oil train derails in Lac Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying much of the town center.
July 6 
 2018 - Shoko Asahara and other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are executed for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, which was carried out in 1995.
July 6 
 2018 - Belgium defeat Brazil 2-1 in the Quarter Finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, meaning that, for the first time, neither Argentina, Brazil or Germany are in the semi-finals of the tournament.
July 6 
 1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
July 7 
 1456 – A retrial verdict clears Joan of Arc of heresy, 25 years after she was burnt to death at the stake.
July 7 
 1534 – The first exchange between Europeans and Native Americans takes place in present-day New Brunswick.
July 7 
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated at the Battle of Hubbardton.
July 7 
 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: The Peace of Tilsit between France, Russia and Prussia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
July 7 
 1911 - The United States, United Kingdom, France and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, banning open-water seal hunting.
July 7 
 1915 - An International Railway trolley overloaded with 157 passengers  crashes near Queenston, Ontario, Canada, killing 15 people.
July 7 
 1953 - Che Guevara starts out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
July 7 
 1956 - Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers become the first people climb Gasherbrum II in the Himalayas.
July 7 
 1958 – Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law, allowing Alaska to become a State of the US on January 3, 1959.
July 7 
 1980 - During the Civil War in Lebanon, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what becomes known as the Safra massacre.
July 7 
 1981 - Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female member of the United States Supreme Court.
July 7 
 1983 – US schoolgirl Samantha Smith visits the Soviet Union, after an invitation from Yuri Andropov.
July 7 
 1991 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
July 7 
 2003 - A Boeing 737 of Sudan Airways crashes in Port Sudan, Sudan, shortly after take-off, killing 116 people.
July 7 
 2009 - A public funeral service is held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, for Michael Jackson, who had died on June 25 aged 50.
July 7 
 2011 – Part of a roof at a football stadium in Enschede, the Netherlands, collapses, killing at least one person.
July 7 
 2011 - Adolf Hitler is removed as an honorary citizen in his birthplace of Braunau am Inn in Austria.
July 7 
 2013 - Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the first British player in 77 years (since Fred Perry) to win the men's title there.
July 7 
 2014 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet-Georgian politician, Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia (b. 1928)
July 2 
 In a Leap year, the half-way point is at midnight between the 1 and 2 July (or 1 a.m. on July 2 if Daylight Saving Time is used).
July 2 
 Every year, this date falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Eve, and it also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in Common years.
July 2 
 626 - China: Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
July 2 
 706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang inters  the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, outside Chang'an.
July 2 
 1266 - The Treaty of Perth settles a territorial dispute between Scotland and Norway over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
July 2 
 1767 - Philip Carteret's expedition discovers Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, naming it after sea cadet Robert Pitcairn, who first sighted it.
July 2 
 1853 - The Russian Army crosses the Pruth River into the Danubian Principalities - Moldavia and Wallachia - the final spark that set off the Crimean War.
July 2 
 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots US President James A. Garfield, who dies of an infection on September 19.
July 2 
 1900 - The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Southern Germany.
July 2 
 1921 - World War I: US President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox-Porter Resolution, formally ending the US' state of war with Imperial Germany.
July 2 
 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of his political rivals, ends with the death of Ernst Roehm.
July 2 
 1990 - A mass panic in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, kills 1,427 people who were there for the Hajj pilgrimage.
July 2 
 2000 - The France national football team wins UEFA Euro 2000, defeating the Italy national football team 2-1 in extra time.
July 2 
 2003 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insults German MEP Martin Schulz, comparing him to a Concentration camp guard.
July 2 
 2008 – After a captivity of more than six years, Ingrid Betancourt is released from FARC Guerrillas in Colombia.
July 2 
 2010 – A tanker explosion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kills more than 230 people.
July 2 
 2011 – Petra Kvitova wins the Women's Singles tennis title at Wimbledon, defeating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4.
July 2 
 2016 - A terrorist attack and hostage taking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results in the deaths of 20 people, mainly non-Bangladeshi citizens.
July 2 
 2016 - Tennis: In a shock result, multiple Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic is knocked out in the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Sam Querrey in four sets.
July 9 
 660 - Battle of Hwangsanboel: Korean forces under General Kim Yu-shin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje at Nonsan, present-day South Korea.
July 9 
 1357 5:31 AM – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of the Charles Bridge in Prague.
July 9 
 1386 - The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its own territory by decisively defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
July 9 
 1609 - Bohemia is given freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
July 9 
 1745 - War of the Austrian Succession: Victory in the Battle of Melle allows the French to capture Ghent in the days after.
July 9 
 1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Native American forces.
July 9 
 1776 - George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York City.
July 9 
 1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
July 9 
 1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
July 9 
 1793 – Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
July 9 
 1821 - 470 prominent Cypriots are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
July 9 
 1846 – By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
July 9 
 1850 – US President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
July 9 
 1868 - The 14th Amendment (change) to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States Due Process of Law.
July 9 
 1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
July 9 
 1918 – Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
July 9 
 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
July 9 
 1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
July 9 
 1962 - The United States detonates atom bomb Starfish Prime over Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
July 9 
 1962 - Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
July 9 
 1972 - In Belfast, Northern Ireland, British army snipers shoot and kill 5 civilians in the Springhill massacre.
July 9 
 1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France.
July 9 
 1982 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
July 9 
 1989 - Boris Becker and Steffi Graf win the Men's and Women's Singles titles at Wimbledon respectively, making it the first occasion that two German tennis players win these titles at the same time.
July 9 
 1991 – International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
July 9 
 1992 – Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.
July 9 
 1993 - The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act, allowing the creation of the territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999 out of part of the Northwest Territories.
July 9 
 1997 – Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
July 9 
 1999 – Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran.
July 9 
 2004 – After José Manuel Durão Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form a government.
July 9 
 2006 – 2006 FIFA World Cup: Italy wins the FIFA World Cup for a fourth time, by beating France on penalties at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
July 9 
 2011 – South Sudan declares independence from Sudan, after a majority of 'yes' votes in a referendum the previous January.
July 9 
 2016 - Over 100 people are killed in violent clashes in Juba, South Sudan, on the fifth anniversary of the country's independence.
July 9 
 2016 - Tennis: Serena Williams equals the Open Era record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, defeating Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon championships final.
July 9 
 2014 - David Azrieli, Polish-born Canadian-Israeli real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (b. 1922)
July 8 
 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
July 8 
 1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta.
July 8 
 1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
July 8 
 1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava - Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XIII of Sweden at Poltava, ending Sweden's role as a major European power.
July 8 
 1730 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages 1,000 kilometers of Chile's coastline.
July 8 
 1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British forces defeat the French in the last battle in New France.
July 8 
 1776 – The Declaration of Independence is read out for the first time and the Liberty Bell is rung, in Philadelphia.
July 8 
 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain.
July 8 
 1822 - Chippewas turn over a large section of land in present-day Ontario over to the United Kingdom.
July 8 
 1853 - US Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives at Edo Bay (present-day Tokyo) with a treaty requesting trade.
July 8 
 1879 - Sailing ship USS Jeannette leaves San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
July 8 
 1927 - Heavy rain in the night to July 9 causes major flooding in Saxony, Germany, killing 160 people.
July 8 
 1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a programme called Women In the Air Force.
July 8 
 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
July 8 
 1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is removed from power by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
July 8 
 2001 - Goran Ivanisevic, as a rank outsider, wins the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Patrick Rafter in the final.
July 8 
 2003 - The first attempted separation of conjoined twins, carried in Singapore, fails, as Ladan and Laleh Bijani die of complications from the operation to separate them.
July 8 
 2004 – Heinz Fischer becomes President of Austria, two days after the death of his predecessor, Thomas Klestil.
July 8 
 2005 – The G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, concludes, with promises of aid to developing countries.
July 8 
 2007 – Roger Federer wins his fifth consecutive Wimbledon Men's Singles tennis title, defeating Rafael Nadal in five sets.
July 8 
 2014 - Israel launches Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, following the killing of Israeli teenagers which had led to tensions between Israel and Hamas.
July 8 
 2014 - Brazil v Germany: In the semi finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Brazil national football team is beaten 7-1 by the Germany national football team in a shock result.
July 8 
 Several footballing and World Cup records are beaten in this match, in which Germany's Miroslav Klose scored his record-breaking 16th World Cup goal.
July 8 
 2016 - The New European, a new British pro-European newspaper, publishes its first weekly edition, in response to the Brexit vote.
July 8 
 2018 - In the British Government, David Davis resigns as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, being replaced with Dominic Raab; Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also resigns, doing so the next day.
July 8 
 1908 – Nelson A. Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York (d. 1979)