the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
March 21 
 537 - Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is prevented from doing so at the Praenestine Gate, known as Vivarium, by the defenders under Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
March 21 
 1152 - The marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine is annulled, meaning that their marriage is no longer recognized.
March 21 
 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of the Vatican during an armed conflict, Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
March 21 
 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria was fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
March 21 
 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
March 21 
 1921 - A new economic policy is implemented by the Bolsheviks in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
March 21 
 1925 - Syngman Rhee is removed from office as President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
March 21 
 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Congressional Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
March 21 
 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
March 21 
 1937 - Ponce Massacre: 19 people, including a 7-year-old girl, are killed in Ponce, Puerto Rico, being gunned down by police guard acting under orders of US-appointed Governor Blanton C. Winship.
March 21 
 1943 - Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorffplots to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, though the plan does not go ahead.
March 21 
 1945 - World War II: Operation Carthage - British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, though a school is also hit, killing 125 people.
March 21 
 1945 - World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
March 21 
 1946 - The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in American football since 1933.
March 21 
 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
March 21 
 1960 – Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
March 21 
 1964 – In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" (I'm not old enough).
March 21 
 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
March 21 
 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the 3rd and finally successful Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery Alabama.
March 21 
 1970 – Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
March 21 
 1970 – In Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dana wins the fifteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "All Kinds of Everything".
March 21 
 1980 – President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
March 21 
 1980 – On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
March 21 
 1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
March 21 
 1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations that tie baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
March 21 
 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
March 21 
 2002 – In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
March 21 
 2004 – In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
March 21 
 2005 – In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
March 21 
 2016 - Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba is convicted of rape, murder and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Edith Massey 
 She acted in several of director John Waters' most well-known movies: Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, and Polyester.
Edith Massey 
 Waters discovered Massey as a waitress in a Baltimore, Maryland, USA bar he and his friends frequented.
Edith Massey 
 In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Massey capitalized on her Waters infamy by touring as the lead singer of a punk band (Edie and the Eggs) and opening a thrift store in Baltimore called Edith's Shopping Bag.
Statue of Liberty 
 The Statue of Liberty (officially named Liberty Enlightening the World and sometimes referred to as Lady Liberty) is a monument symbolising the United States.
Statue of Liberty 
 It was given to the United States by the people of France in 1886, to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution.
Statue of Liberty 
 It represents a woman wearing a stola, a crown and sandals, trampling a broken chain, and with a torch in her raised right hand and a tabula ansata, or tablet where the date of the Declaration of Independence  (1776)  is written, in her left hand.
Statue of Liberty 
 The statue is on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, and it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans travelling by ship.
Statue of Liberty 
 The Statue of Liberty is based on the Greek god Libertas, also known as Eleutheria, the Goddess of Liberty, and was given a temple on the Aventine Hill in  238 BC.
Statue of Liberty 
 Maurice Koechlin, who was chief engineer of Gustave Eiffel's engineering company and designer of the Eiffel Tower, designed the internal structure.
Statue of Liberty 
 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc chose copper in the construction of the statue, and for the adoption of the repoussé construction technique, where a malleable metal is hammered on the reverse side.
Statue of Liberty 
 The exception is the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf (originally made of copper and later altered to hold glass panes).
Statue of Liberty 
 For many years it was one of the first glances of the United States for millions of immigrants and visitors after ocean voyages from around the world.
Statue of Liberty 
 The statue is the central part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, administered by the National Park Service.
Statue of Liberty 
 A plaque on the copper just under the figure's feet declares that it is a colossal statue representing Liberty, designed by Bartholdi and built by the Paris firm of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie (Cie is the French abbreviation analogous to Co.).
Statue of Liberty 
 Another plaque declares the statue to be a gift from the people of the Republic of France that honors "the Alliance of the two Nations in achieving the Independence of the United States of America and attests their abiding friendship."
Statue of Liberty 
 In 1903, a bronze tablet that bears the text of "The New Colossus" and commemorates Emma Lazarus was presented by friends of the poet.
Statue of Liberty 
 Until the 1986 renovation, it was mounted inside the pedestal; today it resides in the Statue of Liberty Museum in the base.
Statue of Liberty 
 It is accompanied by a tablet given by the Emma Lazarus Commemorative Committee in 1977, celebrating the poet's life.
Statue of Liberty 
 The statues stand for two Americans—Pulitzer and Lazarus—and three Frenchmen—Bartholdi, Laboulaye, and Eiffel.
Statue of Liberty 
 The UNESCO "Statement of Significance" describes the statue as a "masterpiece of the human spirit" that "endures as a highly potent symbol—inspiring contemplation, debate and protest—of ideals such as liberty, peace, human rights, abolition of slavery, democracy and opportunity."
1875 
 The Zoo, Lyrics and Book: Bolton Rowe Music: Arthur Sullivan, London production opened at St. James Theatre on June 5
Ankst 
 Ankst has been the launch-pad for several popular Welsh artists, including Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
1988 
 February 17 – A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" music video.
1988 
 March 12 – Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
1988 
 Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboy in which he called Powers a "creep".
1988 
 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song.
1988 
 January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
1988 
 Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger for their research on neutrinos
1988 
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, and George H. Hitchings
1988 
 The Cat Came BackCocktail starring Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, and Elisabeth ShueComing to America starring Eddie MurphyDie HardA Fish Called Wanda, nominated for three Academy AwardsThe Great OutdoorsThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 
 New booksAlaska  –  James A. MichenerThe Alchemist – Paulo CoelhoKiki: Reine de la Montparnasse – Lou MollgaardBreathing Lessons – Anne TylerA Brief History of Time  –  Stephen HawkingThe Butcher – Alina ReyesCabal – Clive BarkerCandlelight Spells – Gerina DunwichThe Cardinal of the Kremlin  –  Tom ClancyCat's Eye – Margaret AtwoodThe Coming of the King – Nikolai TolstoyCurriculum (poems) –  Grazyna MillerThe Dark Green Tunnel – Allan W. EckertThe Fifth Child – Doris LessingGolden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch  – Alanna NashThe Hellbound Heart  –  Clive BarkerThe Icarus Agenda  –  Robert LudlumLove in the Time of Cholera  –  Gabriel García Márquez
1988 
 Matilda - Roald DahlNervous Conditions  –  Tsitsi DangarembgaOscar and Lucinda  –  Peter CareyThe Player of Games  –  Iain M. BanksA Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915 – Miranda SeymourThe Sands of Time  –  Sidney SheldonScorpius – John GardnerThe Shell Seekers  –  Rosamunde PilcherSourcery – Terry PratchettTapestry – Belva PlainTil We Meet Again  –  Judith KrantzThe Toynbee Convector – Ray BradburyWyrd Sisters – Terry PratchettZoya''  – Danielle Steel
April 1 
 325 - Emperor Cheng of Jin, at the age of 4 years, becomes Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China, succeeding his father, Emperor Ming of Jin.
April 1 
 1545 - The Bolivian city of Potosi is founded after the discovery of major silver deposits in the area.
April 1 
 1908 - Territorial Force, which is later renamed the Territorial Army, is as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
April 1 
 1921 – Adrienne Bolland becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Andes, from Mendoza in Argentina to Santiago, Chile.
April 1 
 1924 - Adolf Hitler is sent to five years in prison for his part in the Beer Hall Putsch, he only spends nine months there, writing Mein Kampf.
April 1 
 1933 - England cricketer Wally Hammond sets a record for the highest individual test innings of 336 against New Zealand.
April 1 
 1941 - Fantaba Alba massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Guards.
April 1 
 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the creation of the United Air Force Academy in Colorado.
April 1 
 1957 – The BBC current affairs programme Panorama plays an April Fools' Day joke, about a Spaghetti harvest in Switzerland.
April 1 
 1989 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher introduces the Community Charge (Poll tax) in Scotland.
April 1 
 2009 - A Super Puma helicopter crashes in the North Sea off the east coast of Scotland, killing all 18 people on board.
April 1 
 2018 - Carlos Alvarado Quesada is elected President of Costa Rica, defeating Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz.
April 1 
 2018 - The People's Republic of China's Tiangong-1 space station breaks up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere and lands in the Southern Pacific Ocean near Tahiti.
April 1 
 2019 - It is revealed that "Reiwa" will be the name of Japan's new imperial era when Emperor Akihito abdicates at the end of the month in favour of his son Naruhito.
April 1 
 1940 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan political and environmental activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2011)
January 8 
 307 - Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned, and succeeded by his son, Jin Huaidi.
January 8 
 1297 - François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the Rock of Monaco; from then on, his family rules the Principality of Monaco.
January 8 
 1697 - Thomas Aikenhead of Edinburgh becomes the last person in Scotland, and in the present-day United Kingdom, to be executed for blasphemy.
January 8 
 1815 – War of 1812: In the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
January 8 
 1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
January 8 
 1877 – In Montana, Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry.
January 8 
 1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
January 8 
 1908 – A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
January 8 
 1942 - World War II: To stop Japanese advances in the Pacific Ocean, the Allies create the commando ABDACOM.
January 8 
 1959 – Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France, while Charles de Gaulle becomes the first President of France's Fifth Republic.
January 8 
 1961 - In a referendum, a majority of French voters supports Charles de Gaulle's policies on Algeria, which would lead towards the country's independence from France.
January 8 
 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).
January 8 
 1971 - Bowing to international pressure, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
January 8 
 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial begins for seven men accused of placing bugs in United States Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
January 8 
 1975 – Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
January 8 
 1989 – Kegworth Air Disaster: British Midland Flight 92 crashes onto the M1 motorway, killing 47 people out of the 127 on board.
January 8 
 1992 – President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.
January 8 
 1996 – An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people
January 8 
 1998 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.
January 8 
 2003 - In Kosciuszko National Park in Australia, following several lightning strikes during the dry season, bush fires break out.
January 8 
 2003 – US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
January 8 
 2010 – The Togo national football team is targeted in an attack in Cabinda, Angola, and therefore withdraws from the African Cup of Nations.
January 8 
 2011 – 2011 Tucson shooting: Six people are killed in a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and several are injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
January 8 
 2015 - Maithripala Sirisena is elected President of Sri Lanka, defeating Mahinda Rajapaksa, and takes office the next day.
January 8 
 1859 - Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, cartographer, explorer, traveler and mountaineer (d. 1925)
October 4 
 610  Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
October 4 
 1511  Formation of a Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice against France.
October 4 
 1535  The first complete English language Bible is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
October 4 
 In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15, skipping over 10 days.
October 4 
 1636  Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
October 4 
 1777  American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Germantown, troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
October 4 
 1895  The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.
October 4 
 1917  World War I: The Battle of Broadseinde is fought between British and German armies in Flanders.
October 4 
 1918  An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys the T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
October 4 
 1960  An Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston crashes killing 62 people after a bird strike.
October 4 
 1963  Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
October 4 
 1965  Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the United States, as he arrives in New York City.
October 4 
 1983  Richard Noble sets a new land-speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019 kilometres per hour), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
October 4 
 1992  An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground.
October 4 
 1993  At the climax of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders army tanks to begin the storming of the Russian parliament building.
October 4 
 1997  The second-largest cash robbery in United States history takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina.
October 4 
 2001  A Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile.
October 4 
 2003  Maxim restaurant suicide bombing: A female Palestinian suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, exploded inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa.
October 4 
 2010  Toxic red sludge escapes from the Ajka alumina plant in western Hungary, causing an environmental disaster and killing at least nine people.
October 4 
 2016  Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic, causing flooding, destroying homes and killing seven people.
February 11 
 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
February 11 
 1907 - Paddle steamer Larchmont sinks after colliding with a schooner in Rhode Island Sound, killing 140 people.
February 11 
 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
February 11 
 1964 – At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
February 11 
 1981 – 100,000 gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
February 11 
 1990 – Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
February 11 
 1999 – Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet farthest from the sun.
February 11 
 2001 - A Dutch programmer starts the Anna Kournikova virus, infecting millions of emails through a trick photo of the tennis player.
February 11 
 2006 - On a hunting trip near Corpus Christi, Texas, US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots and injures his friend, multimillionaire lawyer Harry Whittington.
February 11 
 2011 – 2011 Egyptian protests: In the wake of anti-government protests, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak resigns.
February 11 
 2013 - Pope Benedict XVI announces that he is to resign as Pope on February 28, as the first Pope to resign in 598 years.
February 11 
 2014 - 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: The first Olympic women's Ski jumping competition takes place.
February 11 
 2016 - Scientists announce the discovery of gravitational waves, as predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
February 11 
 1715 - Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British collector of art and nature specimens (died 1785)
February 11 
 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, (died 1883)
February 11 
 1940 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish writer and Governor-General of Canada (born 1875)
T. S. Eliot 
 One famous book of his was written for children and is called The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
T. S. Eliot 
 He also wrote "The Waste Land", a very mysterious, complicated poem that helped start a new style called Modernism.
T. S. Eliot 
 His poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and his play Murder in the Cathedral (about Thomas Becket) are also well known.
T. S. Eliot 
 He worked at a bank in England and later as the head editor of a famous publishing company in London that is now called Faber and Faber.
Andrew Lloyd Webber 
 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a British composer and impresario of musical theatre.
Andrew Lloyd Webber 
 During his career, he has produced 15 musicals (several have run at the West End and on Broadway for ten or more years).
Andrew Lloyd Webber 
 His lyricists have included: Tim Rice, Don Black, Christopher Hampton, Richard Stilgoe, and Ben Elton.
Andrew Lloyd Webber 
 He has won many awards for his work, most notably seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an International Emmy, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Andrew Lloyd Webber 
 On 25 October 2009, it was reported that Webber had been diagnosed with the early stages of prostate cancer.
Andrew Lloyd Webber 
 Phantom of the Opera (1984): as an idea, (1985): Started development and 1st debut, (1986): as 2 pop singles early that year and in October 9th 1st public debut
October 24 
 69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
October 24 
 1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny was ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
October 24 
 1590 - John White, governor of the second Roanaoake Colony in present-day Virginia, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
October 24 
 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was completely divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia.
October 24 
 1861 – First transcontinental telegraph line in North America is completed, ending the Pony Express.
October 24 
 1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.
October 24 
 1902 - The Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts, almost completely destroying the city of Quetzaltenango.
October 24 
 1911 - Orville Wright remains in the air for 9 minutes and 45 seconds, in a Wright glider at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina.
October 24 
 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousted Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic.