the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
October 1 
 1966  West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatalities and no survivors near Wemme, Oregon.
October 1 
 1968  Guyana moves towards independent broadcasting, when its government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service.
October 1 
 1975  In the Thrilla in Manila, Muhammad Ali defends his world heavyweight boxing title against Joe Frazier.
October 1 
 1975  The Ellice Islands split from the Gilbert Islands (present-day Kiribati) and change their name to Tuvalu.
October 1 
 1979  The United States hands over control of the Panama Canal to Panama, though the full transfer of control occurs at the end of 1999.
October 1 
 1988  Singles' Tennis: Steffi Graf wins the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, having already won all Grand Slam tournaments of the year, becoming the first, and so far only, winner of a 'Golden Slam' in tennis.
October 1 
 2009  The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
October 1 
 2017  Las Vegas Strip shooting: Stephen Paddock carries out the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in recent US history in Las Vegas when he fires shots from two windows of his 32nd floor room on the Mandalay Bay Hotel onto a crowd in a country music festival, killing 59 people and wounding more than 500.
October 1 
 1850  David R. Francis, American politician and diplomat, Governor of Missouri and Ambassador to Russia (d. 1927)
September 2 
 31 BC – Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium – Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
September 2 
 1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
September 2 
 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.
September 2 
 1752 – The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
September 2 
 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughtered three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
September 2 
 1807 – British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to stop Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
September 2 
 1811 - The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, named after King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
September 2 
 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
September 2 
 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
September 2 
 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces defeat the French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
September 2 
 1885 – In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
September 2 
 1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
September 2 
 1901 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 2 
 1939 – Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) ruled by Nazi leader Forster is annexed to Nazi Germany.
September 2 
 1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz.
September 2 
 1945 – World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
September 2 
 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
September 2 
 1946 - A caretaker government is formed in India, with Jawaharlal Nehru taking Prime Ministerial powers.
September 2 
 1958 - United States Air Force C-130 A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia, when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a mission, killing all crew members.
September 2 
 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
September 2 
 1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
September 2 
 1987 – In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
September 2 
 1991 – The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
September 2 
 1998 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva.
September 2 
 1998 – A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
September 2 
 2004 - Resolution 1559: The United Nations Security Council calls for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon.
September 2 
 2016 - President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov dies aged 78, after several days of speculation over his ill health.
September 2 
 2018 - National Museum of Brazil fire: The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro is heavily damaged by fire.
September 2 
 2019 - Sinking of MV Conception: 34 people are killed when the boat "MV Conception" goes on fire and sinks near Santa Cruz, California.
September 2 
 1811 - J. C. Jacobsen, Danish industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Carlsberg brewery (d. 1887)
September 4 
 476 – Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.
September 4 
 626 - Li Shimin, known after his death as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty in China.
September 4 
 1260 – The forces of King Manfred of Sicily, in league with the Ghibellines, defeat the Guelphs at Monte Aperto.
September 4 
 1774 - Members of James Cook's expedition become the first Europeans to sight New Caledonia (presently part of France) in the Pacific Ocean, and name it after Scotland, for which Caledonia is another name.
September 4 
 1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
September 4 
 1800 - The French garrison of Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese.
September 4 
 1862 - American Civil War: Maryland campaign - General Robert E. Lee takes the army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
September 4 
 1882 - Thomas Edison flips the switch on the first-ever commercial electrical power plant, which lights up a square mile of Lower Manhattan.
September 4 
 1886 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
September 4 
 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
September 4 
 1890 - The now-Greek city of Thessaloniki is heavily damaged by fire, making 20,000 people homeless.
September 4 
 1912 - Albanian rebels are successful in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands.
September 4 
 1923 – In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
September 4 
 1940 – World War II: The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power.
September 4 
 1941 - World War II: A German submarine carries out the first attack on a United States ship, the USS Greer.
September 4 
 1945 – World War II: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.
September 4 
 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
September 4 
 1957 – Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
September 4 
 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins – The United States Marines launch a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces.
September 4 
 1971 – A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska killing all 111 people on board.
September 4 
 1972 – Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.
September 4 
 1989 - In Leipzig, then-East Germany, the first of the so-called Monday Demonstrations takes place, calling for opposition groups to be allowed.
September 4 
 1995 – The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
September 4 
 1996 – War on Drugs: Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
September 4 
 1997 – A U.S. Air Force C-141 cargo plane and a German TU-154 collide in mid-air over southwest Africa killing 33.
September 4 
 2006 – Australian naturalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) is killed by a stingray off the Queensland coast.
September 4 
 2007 - Three terrorists are arrested in Germany on suspicion of being part of Al-Qaeda and allegedly planning attacks on Frankfurt International Airport and US military installations.
September 4 
 2010 – 2010 Canterbury earthquake: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread damage and power outages, particularly in Christchurch.
September 4 
 2017 - The Queensferry Crossing, linking Fife and Lothian in Scotland, is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II, exactly 53 years to the day after the opening of the nearby Forth Road Bridge.
September 5 
 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
September 5 
 1698  In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year and the commoners had to pay one kopek each.
September 5 
 1781  Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
September 5 
 1793  In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating (starting) the Reign of Terror.
September 5 
 1812  War of 1812: Siege of Fort Wayne begins with Chief Winamac's forces attacking two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
September 5 
 1862  American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia into Maryland.
September 5 
 1877  Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
September 5 
 1901  The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
September 5 
 1905  Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed – In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
September 5 
 1914  World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins – Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
September 5 
 1927  The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
September 5 
 1936  Federico Borrell García, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, is photographed in the moment of his death by Robert Capa.
September 5 
 1942  World War II: The Battle of Milne Bay in the Pacific Ocean ends in a Japanese defeat against the Allies.
September 5 
 1943  World War II: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
September 5 
 1945  Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
September 5 
 1949  A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
September 5 
 William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
September 5 
 1970  Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.
September 5 
 1972  Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
September 5 
 1975  In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
September 5 
 1978  Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
September 5 
 1980  The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
September 5 
 1983  The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
September 5 
 1988  With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
September 5 
 1991  The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention, 1989, comes into force.
September 5 
 1996  Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina, where 27 people are killed, and three billion dollars worth of damage are caused.
September 5 
 2002  A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
September 5 
 2002  The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.
September 5 
 2005  A Mandala Airlines plane crashes in a residential area in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 on board and 39 on the ground.
September 5 
 2005  In Solden, Tyrol, Austria, an aerial lift accident kills nine German tourists, as a transport helicopter hits a cable car, which then plunges to the ground.
September 5 
 2012  An accidental explosion at a Turkish army ammunition store in Afyon, Western Turkey, kills 25 soldiers.
September 5 
 2012  The bodies of Saad al-Hilli, two members of his family, and a local cyclist are found near Annecy, in the alpine region of France, having all been shot, while al-Hilli's two daughters survived.
September 5 
 1936  Fernando Borrell García, Spanish Republican soldier, photographed in moment of his death (b. 1912)
September 6 
 394  Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
September 6 
 1492  Christopher Columbus leaves La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his last land-stop on the way of his voyage that takes him to the Caribbean.
September 6 
 1522  The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world, with captain Juan Sebastian de Elcano.
September 6 
 1634  Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nordlingen, the Catholic imperial army defeats the Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
September 6 
 1803  British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
September 6 
 1839  Polynesian atoll Ahe in the Tuamoto Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, is discovered and mapped by US naval officer Charles Wilkes.
September 6 
 1847  Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
September 6 
 1861  American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
September 6 
 1863  American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Islands in South Carolina.
September 6 
 1870  Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
September 6 
 1870  The ship HMS Captain sinks in a storm off Cape Finisterre, Galicia, Spain, killing almost 500 people.
September 6 
 1888  Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
September 6 
 1898  Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is allowed to reign in her own right, having turned 18 the previous week, after Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont acted as regent for her over the previous eight years.
September 6 
 1901  American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 6 
 1930  Democratically elected President of Argentina Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
September 6 
 1941  Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
September 6 
 1943  The Pennsylvania railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September 6 
 1946  United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the US will follow a policy of Economic Reconstruction in post-war Germany.
September 6 
 1949  Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
September 6 
 1952  A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England, UK, killing 29 people.
September 6 
 1965  War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore in an hour.
September 6 
 1966  In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
September 6 
 1970  Jimi Hendrix performs what turns out to be his last concert, on the German Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, on the last day of the Love and Peace Festival.
September 6 
 1972  Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in Munich, West Germany.
September 6 
 Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum from the United States.
September 6 
 1983  The Soviet Union admits shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
September 6 
 1985  Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
September 6 
 1986  In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
September 6 
 1991  The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
September 6 
 1991  The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
September 6 
 1995  With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
September 6 
 2000  In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
September 6 
 2001  United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
September 6 
 2006  The Germany national football team scores its biggest-ever away win, defeating the San Marino national football team 13-0.
September 6 
 2009  The ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 people on board.
September 6 
 2012  61 people die and 48 are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off Izmir Province, Western Turkey, near Greece's Aegean Islands.
September 6 
 2017  Hurricane Irma sweeps across the Lesser Antilles in the Eastern Caribbean; Almost every building on the island of Barbuda is destroyed.
September 6 
 2018  Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed while campaigning; he survives the attack and is later elected President.
September 6 
 1876  John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physiologist, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935)
September 8 
 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
September 8 
 1514 - Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
September 8 
 1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, most of them children.
September 8 
 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeat Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, present-day Italy.
September 8 
 1863 – American Civil War: At the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, the Confederates prevent an attempt from the Union army to enter Texas.
September 8 
 1883 - The Northern Pacific Railway is completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana, United States.
September 8 
 1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
September 8 
 1923 - Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground on the California coast.
September 8 
 1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
September 8 
 1943 – World War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the allied armistice with Italy.
September 8 
 1945 - United States troops arrive to partition South Korea after the Soviet occupation of the northern part.
September 8 
 1994 - USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes, killing all 132 on board.
September 8 
 2005 - Two EMERCOM II-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas - the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
September 8 
 2018 - US Open: Naomi Osaka becomes the first Japanese tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, in a match dominated by her opponent Serena Williams' disputes with the umpire.
September 8 
 2019 - US Open: Rafael Nadal defeats Daniil Medvedev in five sets to win his 19th Grand Slam singles title, putting him just one behind Roger Federer's total of 20.
September 8 
 1814  Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer and historian (d. 1874)