the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
December 10 
 1978 – Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly given the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 10 
 1979 - Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship and organizers are arrested.
December 10 
 1989 - Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the creation of the Mongolia Democratic Union.
December 10 
 1996 – Rwandan Genocide: Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
December 10 
 2002 – The High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.
December 10 
 2004 – A tombstone commemorating the 35th anniversary of the death of Brazilian guerrilla Carlos Marighella is inaugurated in Salvador, Bahia.
December 10 
 2010 - Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is unable to attend the ceremony in Oslo due to imprisonment.
December 10 
 2014 - Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai becomes the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Prize, doing so with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi.
December 10 
 2019 - Sanna Marin becomes Prime Minister of Finland; she is the world's youngest political leader at the time she takes office, at age 34.
December 10 
 1886 - Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)
December 10 
 1891 - Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)
December 12 
 627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
December 12 
 1098 – First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan – Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 of the people living in it.
December 12 
 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant – A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet.
December 12 
 1862 – USS Cairo sank on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
December 12 
 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
December 12 
 1913 - The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, stolen from the Louvre two years earlier, is found in Florence, Italy.
December 12 
 1914 – The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
December 12 
 1915 – President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai tells that he is going to make himself the Emperor of China.
December 12 
 1936 – Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
December 12 
 1937 – Panay incident: Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
December 12 
 1939 – Winter War: Battle of Tolvajärvi – Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict.
December 12 
 1940 – Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid.
December 12 
 1941 – World War II: United States Marine Corps F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
December 12 
 1948 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre – 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
December 12 
 1950 – Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
December 12 
 1969 – Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
December 12 
 1979 – Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean military officer Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
December 12 
 1982 – Women's peace protest at Greenham Common – 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.
December 12 
 1984 – Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya become the third president of Mauritania after coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.
December 12 
 1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 248 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
December 12 
 1988 – Clapham Junction rail crash killed 35 and injured 100's after two collisions of three commuter trains.
December 12 
 2006 – Peugeot produce their last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.
December 12 
 2013 - Jang Sung-taek, previously a powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is executed, just days after being removed from his position.
December 12 
 2015 - Confenerce on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change makes Paris Agreement on reduction of CO2 after Kyoto Protocol.
December 12 
 1955 – Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman, President of the organizing committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
December 12 
 2006 – Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (b. 1930)
December 13 
 1577 - Francis Drake sets sail on his global voyage from Plymouth, Southwest England, on the ship The Golden Hind.
December 13 
 1675 - The Swedish-controlled North German city of Wismar is attacked by Danish troops during the Scanian War.
December 13 
 1758 - English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing over 360 people.
December 13 
 1862 - American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union General Ambrose Burnside.
December 13 
 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking - Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.
December 13 
 1939 - World War II: The Battle of River Plate takes place between the German Navy and the British Royal Navy.
December 13 
 1941 - A glacier breaks apart at Palcacocha Lake in the Peruvian Andes, resulting in a mud avalanche that kills around 6,000 people in the city of Huaraz.
December 13 
 1967 - The deposed King Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful coup against the Regime of the Colonels.
December 13 
 1972 - Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan become the last people to-date to have set foot on the Moon.
December 13 
 1977 - A DC-3 aircraft chartered from Indianapolis-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport in Indiana, killing 29 people, including the entire University of Evansville basketball team.
December 13 
 A new election in early 1980 brings Pierre Trudeau back as Prime Minister of Canada, less than a year after being voted out of the post.
December 13 
 1985 - Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, killing all 256 people on board.
December 13 
 1989 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out an attack at the Derryard Checkpoint in Northern Ireland, killing 2 British soldiers.
December 13 
 2000 - The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kennedy, Texas and go an a robbery spree.
December 13 
 2011 - Gunman Nordine Amrani shoots six people dead at a Christmas market in Liege, Belgium, before killing himself.
December 15 
 1161 - China: Military officers conspire against Emperor Hailingwang of Jin, of the Jin Dynasty, and kill him in a military coup near the Yangtze River front.
December 15 
 1467 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured, at the Battle of Baia.
December 15 
 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Nashville - Union forces under George Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John Hood.
December 15 
 1905 - The Pushkin House is founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
December 15 
 1917 - World War I: An armistice is reached between Russia's new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
December 15 
 1933 - The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution becomes effective, reversing the 18th Amendment, which had banned the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol.
December 15 
 1946 - US-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
December 15 
 1961 –  An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to die for his part in the Jewish Holocaust
December 15 
 1973 – John Paul Getty III is found alive after being kidnapped in Naples, Italy, a few months earlier.
December 15 
 1973 - The American Psychiatric Association votes 13-0 to remove Homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders.
December 15 
 1976 - The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground off Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing an oil spill.
December 15 
 1978 - US President Jimmy Carter announces that the US is to start diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and would therefore sever relations with the Republic of China, exiled on the island of Taiwan.
December 15 
 1993 - The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
December 15 
 1997 – A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85.
December 15 
 1999 - After weeks of heavy rain, several landslides occur in Northern Venezuela, killing hundreds of people.
December 15 
 2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is reopened to the public almost 12 years after it was closed for restoration.
December 15 
 2010 – A boat carrying about 90 asylum seekers crashes on rocks off Christmas Island, killing around 30 people.
December 15 
 2013 - The funeral and burial of Nelson Mandela take place in his home village of Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
December 15 
 2014 - 2014 Sydney hostage crisis: Iranian refugee and known criminal Man Haron Monis takes several people hostage in a café in Sydney, Australia.
December 15 
 The siege is ended early the next day in a gun battle in which the attacker and two hostages are killed.
December 15 
 1860 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish doctor, won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1904)
December 16 
 1497 - Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
December 16 
 1598 - Second War of Jeong-yu: Battle of Noryang - Chinese general Chen Lin heavily damages the Japanese fleet, which successfully retreats.
December 16 
 1689 – Convention Parliament: In England, the Declaration of the Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
December 16 
 1761 - Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress in Kolobrzeg.
December 16 
 1773 – Boston Tea Party: American patriots dump crates of tea into Boston Harbor at protest against the tea act.
December 16 
 1838 - Great Trek: Battle of Blood River - Voortrekkers under Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu "impis" led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in present-day KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
December 16 
 1863 - American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate army of Tennessee.
December 16 
 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Nashville - Major General George Thomas' Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate army of Tennessee.
December 16 
 1880 - The Boer Republic Transvaal declares independence from the United Kingdom under the name of "South African Republic".
December 16 
 1912 - First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Empire Navy at the Battle of Elli.
December 16 
 1914 - World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
December 16 
 1918 - Vincas Mickevicius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
December 16 
 1927 - Donald Bradman first appears in a first-class cricket match, for New South Wales against South Australia.
December 16 
 1942 - Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler orders Roma candidates for extermination to be deported to Auschwitz.
December 16 
 1944 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with a surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
December 16 
 1947 - William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
December 16 
 1950 - Korean War: Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the war in support of North Korea.
December 16 
 1960 - New York City Air Disaster: Approaching New York Idlewild Airport from Chicago, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation Aircraft during a snowstorm on Staten Island, killing 134 people.
December 16 
 1966 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are adopted.
December 16 
 1985 - New York City crime: Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti.
December 16 
 1988 - In the UK, Edwina Currie resigns as junior health minister, after suggesting that most eggs contain salmonella.
December 16 
 1997 - A Japanese airing of the Denno Senshi-Porygon episode of Pokémon causes seizures in 685 viewers.
December 16 
 2012 - 2012 Delhi gang rape case: A 23-year-old female student is gang-raped by a group of men while getting off a bus in Delhi.
December 16 
 2014 - The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis comes to an end, as police storm the café in Sydney, Australia, where Man Haron Monis had held people hostage since the previous day.
December 16 
 2014 - Members of the Pakistani Taliban carry out a massacre at an army school in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing at least 141 people, most of them children.
December 17 
 546 - Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under King Totila plunder Rome, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
December 17 
 1577 - Francis Drake sails from Plymouth on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Ocean coasts of the Americas.
December 17 
 1583 - Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
December 17 
 1637 – In Japan, the Shimabara Rebellion led by Amakusa Shigeharu against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu begins.
December 17 
 1777 - American Revolutionary War: France formally recognizes the United States as an independent country.
December 17 
 1819 - Simon Bolivar declares the independence of Gran Colombia (present-day Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador) in Angostura, now Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela.
December 17 
 1862 – Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order Number 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky.
December 17 
 1903 – The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 17 
 1918 - Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
December 17 
 1938 - Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
December 17 
 1939 - World War II: Battle of River Plate - The German Navy sinks its own ship Admiral Graf Spee outside Montevideo.
December 17 
 1960 - Haile Selassie is re-installed as Emperor of Ethiopia, after he had previously been removed by a coup, while he was in Brazil, on December 13.
December 17 
 1960 - 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 people on board the aircraft and 32 on the ground are killed.
December 17 
 1961 – The world's biggest circus tragedy occurs in Niteroi, Brazil when the circus is set on fire by angry workers, killing 323 people.
December 17 
 1967 – Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt goes missing on a diving trip off the state of Victoria.
December 17 
 1973 – 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
December 17 
 2003 – The Soham murder trial ends with Ian Huntley being found guilty of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman near Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002.
December 17 
 2010 – Arab Spring: Tunisian fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire in an act of protest.
December 17 
 Shortly after, Tunisia's President, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali is overthrown, and this starts a series of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East.
December 17 
 2010 – Murder of Joanna Yeates: Vincent Tabak murders Joanna Yeates at her home in Clifton, Bristol.
December 17 
 2011 – A typhoon hits the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, killing at least 400 people.
December 17 
 2014 - US President Barack Obama declares a normalization in US-Cuba relations for the first time in over 50 years, after the release of American Alan Gross, who was held in Cuba since December 2009.
December 29 
 1778 - American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia, US.
December 29 
 1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre: The United States soldiers massacre over 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
December 29 
 1930 - Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for what would become Pakistan.
December 29 
 1934 – The first college basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York City is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York University.
December 29 
 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland when a new constitution is adopted.
December 29 
 1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
December 29 
 1972 – An Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar crashed on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101
December 29 
 1987 – Yuri Romanenko of USSR remained in outer space for 326 days and came back to Earth on this day that year.
December 29 
 1989 – On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87.
December 29 
 1993 – Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, is completed.
December 29 
 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year civil war.
December 29 
 1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
December 29 
 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives in the 1970s.
December 29 
 2007 - The New England Patriots defeated the New York Giants 38-35 and became the first team with 16 wins and no losses.
December 29 
 2009 – Akmal Shaikh becomes the first citizen of a present-day European Union country to be executed in the People's Republic of China for over 50 years.
December 29 
 2011 – This date is followed by December 31 in Samoa and Tokelau, as the International Date Line is shifted.
December 29 
 2012 - 2012 Delhi gang rape case: A 23-year-old student attacked on a bus on December 16 dies of her injuries.
December 29 
 2013 - A suicide bomb attack on a train station in Volgograd, southern Russia, kills at least 16 people.
December 29 
 2013 - Formula One champion Michael Schumacher is severely injured in a skiing accident in the French Alps.
December 29 
 2014 - Politicians in Greece are unable to elect a President, with main candidate Stavros Dimas failing to get enough votes.
December 29 
 2016 - The Duge Bridge in Luipanshui, People's Republic of China, the tallest bridge in the world, is opened to traffic.
December 29 
 2016 - Barack Obama's administration expels 35 Russian diplomats in response to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
December 29 
 1844 - Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and first President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1906)
December 29 
 2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient (b. 1912)
December 21 
 1361 - The Battle of Linuesa is fought during the Spanish Reconquista between forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdoms of Castile and Jaen, resulting in a Castilian victory.
December 21 
 1598 - Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by Cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on the Spanish troops in Southern Chile.
December 21 
 1780 – Great Britain declares war on The Netherlands in response to the Dutch joining the League of Armed Neutrality and for assisting French and American forces during the American Revolution.
December 21 
 1832 - Egyptian-Ottoman War: Egyptian forces  decisively defeat Ottoman Empire troops in the Battle of Konya in present-day Turkey.
December 21 
 1861 – Lord Lyons, the British minister to the United States, meets with United States Secretary of State William Seward concerning Confederate envoys  arrested by the United States Navy in order to prevent war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
December 21 
 1872 – HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography.
December 21 
 1907 - The Chilean army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 workers striking saltpeter miners in Iquique.
December 21 
 1914 – First feature-length silent movie comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, is released
December 21 
 The multiracial lists of the Independent Socialist Republican Party (PRSI) wins in all four municipalities.
December 21 
 1942 - Hundreds of workers striking for better pay and conditions at a tin mine in Bolivia are massacred.
December 21 
 1967 - Louis Washkansky, who received the first successful heart transplant in Cape Town on December 3, dies 18 days after the operation.
December 21 
 1969 - The UN adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
December 21 
 1979 – The Lancaster House Agreement was signed, effectively ending the white rule in Rhodesia under Ian Smith.
December 21 
 1987 – The passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Philippines.
December 21 
 1988 – A terrorist bomb explodes and crashes Pan Am flight 103 a Boeing 747, over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270, including 11 on the ground.
December 21 
 1991 - The former Soviet Union countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan join the Commonwealth of Independent States.
December 21 
 1999 – The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives intended by ETA to blow down Torre Picasso.
December 21 
 2002 – Vancouver, British Columbia city council declares "D.O.A. Day" in observance of the Canadian punk band D.O.A.'s decades of influence and accomplishments.
December 21 
 2007 – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary implement the Schengen Agreement.
December 21 
 This has been central to various predictions about December 21, 2012, ranging from spiritual and transformative to apocalyptic.
December 21 
 2012 - Having been posted on YouTube in July, and becoming a worldwide hit, the video of PSY's Gangnam Style reaches the milestone of a billion views on the video-sharing website.
December 21 
 2015 - Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are banned from football for 8 years over corruption at FIFA.