the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
January 27 
 1984 – Michael Jackson suffers severe burns to his scalp while filming a Pepsi commercial after a spark ignites his hair on fire due to a pyrotechnical fault.
January 27 
 1993 - American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Taro becomes the first foreign-born wrestler of the sport to be given the title of Yokozuna.
January 27 
 1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
January 27 
 1997 – It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
January 27 
 1998 – American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
January 27 
 2001 – Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.
January 27 
 2019 - Two bombs explode at a Roman Catholic church service in Jolo, southern Philippines, killing 18 people.
February 1 
 1329 - King John of Bohemia captures Medvegalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.
February 1 
 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being stranded on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands (now belonging to Chile).
February 1 
 1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
February 1 
 1862 – Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time (Atlantic Monthly).
February 1 
 1865 - Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, banning slavery and slave keeping.
February 1 
 1895 - Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
February 1 
 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
February 1 
 1929 – Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
February 1 
 1953 – In the night following January 31 large parts of the Netherlands, Belgium and the southeastern United Kingdom are flooded after heavy storms.
February 1 
 1965 - Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada, is renamed Churchill River, after Winston Churchill, who had died just over a week earlier.
February 1 
 1968 – Vietnam War: NLF officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief.
February 1 
 The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
February 1 
 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
February 1 
 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
February 1 
 1991 - USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 collide on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34 people.
February 1 
 1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
February 1 
 1994 – In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
February 1 
 1995 – Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embassy Hotel in London, UK.
February 1 
 1998 - Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
February 1 
 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts on board.
February 1 
 2004 – At least 244 people are trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
February 1 
 2004 – At the Super Bowl half-time show, part of Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during a routine with Justin Timberlake.
February 1 
 2014 - Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to serve as Head of the United States Federal Reserve, succeeding Ben Bernanke.
February 1 
 2016 - The Zika virus, spread by mosquitoes and causing deformities in newborn babies in South America and Central America, is declared a major world health emergency by the World Health Organization.
February 1 
 1976 – George Whipple, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
February 5 
 2 BC - The Roman senate grants Augustus Caesar the title of "Pater Patriae", meaning "Father of the Fatherland".
February 5 
 1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
February 5 
 1811 – Due to the continuous health problems of King George III, his son, the future King George IV of the United Kingdom becomes regent.
February 5 
 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, on the way to creating the modern Romanian state.
February 5 
 1909 - Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. "
February 5 
 1913 - Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
February 5 
 1918 – The British military transporter ship Tuscania is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Northern Ireland.
February 5 
 1919 - United Artists is formed by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith.
February 5 
 1994 – A mortar shell hits a market place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, killing 60 people and injuring around 200.
February 5 
 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the murder of Civil rights activist Medgar Evans in 1963.
February 5 
 2004 – Morecambe Bay, England: 23 Chinese cockle pickers drown after being caught by the incoming tide.
February 5 
 2006 – Super Bowl XL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks to win their 5th Super Bowl championship.
February 5 
 2017 - Cameroon defeats Egypt 2-1 to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Libreville, Gabon.
February 5 
 2017 - American football: The New England Patriots come from behind to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the 51st Super Bowl.
February 5 
 1827 – Peter Lalor, leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (d. 1889)
February 5 
 This includes ones that are currently active in either playing or management, and some who are currently not.
February 8 
 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex fails in an attempt to take over England from Elizabeth I.
February 8 
 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: In the Battle of Eylau in present-day Poland, Napoleon Bonaparte's French troops defeat  the Russians under General Levin August, Count of Bennigsen.
February 8 
 1817 - Juan Gregorio de las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join Jose de San Martin in liberating Chile from Spain.
February 8 
 1837 - The United States Senate chooses Richard Mentor Johnson to become Vice President of the United States.
February 8 
 1879 - Sandford Fleming proposes the idea of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institution.
February 8 
 1885 - The first Japanese immigrants to be allowed in by the then-Hawaiian government, arrive in Hawaii.
February 8 
 1887 - The Henry L. Dawes Act allows the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land.
February 8 
 1915 - D. W. Griffith's racist silent movie Birth of a Nation is first screened in Los Angeles, California.
February 8 
 1945 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada start Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
February 8 
 1952 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Queen after the death of her father, King George VI of the United Kingdom, two days earlier.
February 8 
 1960 - Queen Elizabeth II issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants would carry the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
February 8 
 1962 - Charonne massacre: Nine Trade unionists are killed by French police, which had been allowed by the-then chief of Paris police, Maurice Papon.
February 8 
 1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by US citizens in Cuba are banned by the John F. Kennedy administration.
February 8 
 1963 - Iraq's Prime Minister, Brigadier-General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
February 8 
 1965 - Eastern Airlines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after take-off from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, after trying to avoid a mid-air collision.
February 8 
 1968 - An attack on African American students from South Carolina State University, protesting in Orangeburg, South Carolina, kills 3 or 4.
February 8 
 1981 - 21 football fans are trampled to death in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a match between Olympiakos and AEK Athens.
February 8 
 1983 - After a record-breaking drought, the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia is affected by a dust storm, and a red dust cloud hangs over the city.
February 8 
 2010 - A freak storm in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan, causes a series of at least 36 avalanches, killing at least 172 people, and trapping many travelers in the region.
February 15 
 1690 - Constantin Cremer, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sitiu.
February 15 
 1760 - British ship HMS Ramilles strands at Bolt Head near Plymouth, England, after a navigation error.
February 15 
 1798 - The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon Bonaparte, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
February 15 
 1855 - French frigate La Semillante breaks apart in the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia, killing all 693 people on board.
February 15 
 1879 - Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases at the United States Supreme Court.
February 15 
 1898 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana, Cuba, killing over 260 people.
February 15 
 1925 - 1925 Serum Run to Nome, Alaska: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto as the lead dog of the last team.
February 15 
 1933 - In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara tries to kill President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt but instead shoots Mayor of Chicago Anton J. Cermak, who dies on March 6.
February 15 
 1946 - ENIAC, the first electronic  general-purpose computer is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania.
February 15 
 1961 - Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73 people, including the entire US figure skating team.
February 15 
 1970 - A Dominican DC-9 airplane crashes into the sea shortly after take-off from Santo Domingo, killing 102 people.
February 15 
 2013 - 2013 Russian meteor event: A meteor crashes down over Chelyabinsk, Russia, shattering windows and injuring over 1,000 people.
February 15 
 Coincidentally, near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 passed within 27,700 kilometers of distance to Earth's surface later on this date.
February 15 
 1964 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1880)
February 10 
 1355 – St. Scholastica's Day riot: Two days of rioting in Oxford leaves 63 scholars and probably 30 locals dead.
February 10 
 1567 – An Explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field building in Edinburgh and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley is found dead, most probably in an assassination.
February 10 
 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and Prussians.
February 10 
 1861 - Jefferson Davis is informed by telegraph of his election as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
February 10 
 1910 - Off Minorca, French passenger ship General Chanzy is tossed against a reef in a storm, causing it to sink.
February 10 
 1933 –  Round 13 of Boxing Match in New York City's Madison Square Garden: Primo Carnera  knocks down Ernie Schaaf, who dies four days later as a result of his injuries.
February 10 
 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Nationalists finish their conquest of Catalonia and seal Spain's border with France.
February 10 
 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied Eastern Poland to Siberia.
February 10 
 1945 - German passenger ship Steuben with 4,000 refugees on board off the Pomeranian Baltic Sea coast, is torpedoed by a Soviet U-boat and sinks, killing 3,500.
February 10 
 1964 - Aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with destroyer HMAS Voyager off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
February 10 
 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval, concerning protective measures for Turkey in the event of a war in Iraq.
February 10 
 2013 - The Nigeria national football team wins the Africa Cup of Nations, defeating the Burkina Faso national football team 1-0 in the final.
February 10 
 2015 - It is announced that Australia will make a one-off appearance at the 60th Eurovision Song Contest.
February 10 
 1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Russian revolutionary, believed to be the attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1918)
February 10 
 1966 - Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
February 16 
 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
February 16 
 1646 - The Battle of Torrington takes place in Devon, as the last major battle of the English Civil War.
February 16 
 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia.
February 16 
 1838 – Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal were killed by Zulus.
February 16 
 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War
February 16 
 1868 – In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).
February 16 
 1904 - The ship RRS Discovery is rescued from ice at McMurdo Sound in Antarctica after two years of being trapped in the ice, in an expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott.
February 16 
 1934 – Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund
February 16 
 1940 – Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, was boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.
February 16 
 1957 - The first Africa Cup of Nations football tournament is won by the Egypt national football team.
February 16 
 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
February 16 
 1960 - The United States Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sunblast, setting sail from New Haven, Connecticut to begin the first submerged circumnavigation (round-the-world journey) of the globe.
February 16 
 1970 – Joe Frazier starts a heavyweight world boxing champion winning streak with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds.
February 16 
 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
February 16 
 1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
February 16 
 1989 – Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
February 16 
 1990 - Sam Nujoma is elected to become the first President of Namibia, which becomes independent on March 21.
February 16 
 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.
February 16 
 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.
February 16 
 1999 – In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
February 16 
 1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
February 16 
 1999 – In Jasper, Texas, the trial begins of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime.
February 16 
 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.
February 16 
 2015 - The Egyptian military begins conducting air strikes against militants from a branch of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya in retaliation for the group's beheading of several Egyptian Christians.
February 16 
 2017 - At least 80 people are killed in a bomb attack on a Sufi shrine in the province of Sindh, southern Pakistan.
February 19 
 As part of the deal, New Amsterdam is transferred to English control, leading to it being renamed as New York.
February 19 
 1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama on charges of treason.
February 19 
 1860 - Passenger steamer "Hungarian" of the Canadian-British Allan Line is tossed against cliffs on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada, killing all 205 people on board.
February 19 
 1915 – The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French force bombs Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
February 19 
 1942 – World War II: 250 Japanese warplanes bomb the city of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, killing 243 people.
February 19 
 1942 - United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Order 9066, leading to the moving of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
February 19 
 1960 - German skier Georg Thoma becomes the first person from outside Scandinavia to win the Olympic gold medal in the Nordic Combined event, at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.
February 19 
 1976 - United States President Gerald Ford reverses Order 9066, which had Japanese Americans being moved to internment camps.
February 19 
 1978 – At least 10 Egyptian commandos are killed in a gun battle with Greek Cypriot soldiers at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus.
February 19 
 1985 - William J. Schroeder becomes the first person to both receive an artificial heart and be able to leave hospital.
February 19 
 2001 – Foot and Mouth Disease is discovered at an abattoir in Essex, leading to an outbreak across the United Kingdom.
February 19 
 2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars, using its thermal imaging system.
February 19 
 2011 - The first exhibition of the Belitung Shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang Dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
February 19 
 2012 – Iran suspends oil exports to the United Kingdom and France, in response to an embargo imposed by the EU.
February 19 
 2012 – Joachim Gauck is put forward as the main candidate to succeed Christian Wulff as President of Germany.
February 19 
 1901 – Florence Green, British supercentenarian and last-surviving World War I service veteran (d. 2012)
February 23 
 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
February 23 
 1554 - In present-day Chile, Mapuche forces under leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Mairihueno.
February 23 
 1778 – American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
February 23 
 1847 – Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops defeat Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna.
February 23 
 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, DC after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.
February 23 
 1874 – Walter Winfield patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called lawn tennis.
February 23 
 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
February 23 
 1905 – Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
February 23 
 1918 - The last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Adolphus Frederick IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, commits suicide.
February 23 
 1927 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
February 23 
 1927 - German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
February 23 
 1942 - World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coast near Santa Barbara.
February 23 
 1943 - Fire breaks out in St. Joseph's Orphanage in County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
February 23 
 1944 - The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the north Caucasus to Central Asia.
February 23 
 1945 – Early in the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Surabachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
February 23 
 1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań, city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
February 23 
 1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
February 23 
 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
February 23 
 1975 – In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
February 23 
 1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
February 23 
 1983 – The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
February 23 
 1983 – The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
February 23 
 1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war.
February 23 
 1991 – Thailand: General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
February 23 
 1995 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33, closing above 4,000 for the first time.
February 23 
 1997 – A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir, though it is extinguished after 14 minutes, without anyone on board coming to harm.
February 23 
 1998 – Netscape Communications Corporation announces the foundation of mozilla.org, to co-ordinate the development of the open source Mozilla web browser.
February 23 
 1999 – White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr by dragging him behind a truck for two miles.
February 23 
 2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; Bush and Putin are in attendance.
February 23 
 2010 - Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the River Lambro in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
February 23 
 The host nation, Russia, ends the games with the most gold medals, making it the second Winter Olympics in a row in which the host country achieves this (after Canada in 2010).