the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
March 13 
 1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".
March 13 
 1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
March 13 
 1964 – A young woman, Kitty Genovese, is murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander effect.
March 13 
 1971 – In New York City, Rock group The Allman Brothers Band record a concert that will be released as their classic live album At Fillmore East
March 13 
 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada.
March 13 
 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in world, is opened, connecting Aomori and Hakodate in Japan.
March 13 
 1988 – I. King Jordan becomes the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University after the Deaf President Now demonstrations.
March 13 
 1991 – The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
March 13 
 1993 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.
March 13 
 1996 – The Dunblane Massacre: In Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide.
March 13 
 1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
March 13 
 1997 – In Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, the Phoenix Lights, one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.
March 13 
 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy.
March 13 
 2012 - Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica announce that they are to stop publishing its print edition, in order to focus on its online edition.
March 13 
 2012 - 28 people are killed as a bus returning from a school trip back to Belgium crashes in a tunnel in Canton Valais, Switzerland.
March 13 
 2013 - cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected Pope, choosing to be known as Pope Francis.
March 13 
 2018 - US President Donald Trump fires his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and nominates CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him.
March 12 
 1550 - Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
March 12 
 1622 - Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier are canonized as Saints of the Roman Catholic Church.
March 12 
 1811 - Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Neyonce again successfully delays the pursuing an Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
March 12 
 1881 - Andrew Watson makes his first appearance for the Scotland national football team, as the world's first black footballer to turn out for a national side.
March 12 
 1922 - Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
March 12 
 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
March 12 
 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States.
March 12 
 1934 - Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru sinks in a storm off Sasebo, Nagasaki, killing 100 out of the 113 people on board.
March 12 
 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
March 12 
 1950 - Llandow Air Disaster: In South Wales, an aircraft crashes near the village of Sigingstone, killing 80 people.
March 12 
 1958 – In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love).
March 12 
 1984 - National Union of Mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill, call for a nationwide strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher.
March 12 
 1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
March 12 
 1993 - The Blizzard of '93 hits the eastern United States, with heavy snowfall, high winds and tornadoes.
March 12 
 1994 – A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
March 12 
 1997 – Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
March 12 
 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
March 12 
 2004 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
March 12 
 2005 – Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, stepped down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
March 12 
 2011 - Fukushima nuclear disaster: After the previous day's earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant fails in several reactors, causing a nuclear disaster, as explosions occur.
March 12 
 2014 - An explosion at the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 people and injures around 70.
March 12 
 2019 - British Prime Minister Theresa May loses a second vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons.
March 12 
 1919 – Michael Stepovich, Territorial Governor of Alaska, last-surviving territorial Governor in the US (d. 2014)
March 12 
 1947 – Mitt Romney, American politician, former Governor of Massachusetts and Presidential candidate
March 11 
 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
March 11 
 1845 – The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
March 11 
 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
March 11 
 1872 - Meiji Japan officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa Prefecture.
March 11 
 1888 – The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
March 11 
 1900 – Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
March 11 
 1936 – British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
March 11 
 1941 – World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
March 11 
 1959 – In Cannes, France, Teddy Scholten wins the fourth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een beetje" (A little bit).
March 11 
 1977 – 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
March 11 
 1978 – Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces.
March 11 
 The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
March 11 
 1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean President since 1970.
March 11 
 1991 – A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
March 11 
 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
March 11 
 1997 – An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
March 11 
 2005 – Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Brandau and deputy Hoyt Teasley are all murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect being Brian Nichols who surrendered to police on the 12th.
March 11 
 2006 – Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic dies while on trial for war crimes in The Hague.
March 11 
 2011 – 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami: A powerful magnitude 9.1 earthquake strikes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, killing more than 5,000 people and leaving many more missing, destroying buildings, as tsunamis are triggered.
March 11 
 The quake also leads to a nuclear accident, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, causing concern about radiation levels.
March 11 
 2014 - Michelle Bachelet becomes President of Chile for a second time, having previously held this office from 2006 to 2010.
March 11 
 2018 - The Congress of the Communist Party of China votes to extend Xi Jinping's term as President beyond the previous maximum 10-year limit.
April 3 
 1860 – The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California is started (completed on April 13).
April 3 
 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate States of America.
April 3 
 1884 - Belgian passenger ship Daniel Steinmann sinks in a storm of Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing 121 people.
April 3 
 1933 - The first flight over Mount Everest occurs, as part of a British expedition led by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
April 3 
 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
April 3 
 General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
April 3 
 1948 – President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
April 3 
 1968 – Elvis Presley sings Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
April 3 
 1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, who wins the world championship by default as a result.
April 3 
 1997 – Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 people living in Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
April 3 
 2000 – Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
April 3 
 2010 – South African far-right politician Eugene Terre'Blanche is beaten to death on his farm near the town of Ventersdorp.
April 3 
 2016 - Panama Papers: A leak of 11 million legal documents related to the firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies, involving many rich and famous people, including political leaders, businessmen and celebrities.
April 3 
 2017 - 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing: A bomb is detonated in the subway system in Saint Petersburg, Russia, killing 14 people.
April 3 
 2018 - YouTube headquarters shooting: Nasim Najafi Aghdam injures several people at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, California, before turning the gun on herself.
April 6 
 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipo and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the Battle of Thapsus.
April 6 
 1199 - Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
April 6 
 1250 - Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids in Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
April 6 
 1327 – The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire in Avignon.
April 6 
 1580 - Areas around the English Channel experience once of their strongest earthquakes, at an estimated magnitude of over 5.
April 6 
 1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.
April 6 
 1793 - During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
April 6 
 1812 - British forces under command of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington assault the fortress at Badajoz, near the Spain-Portugal border, marking a turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon Bonaparte-led France.
April 6 
 1830 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Fayette, New York.
April 6 
 1832 – Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
April 6 
 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh begins - In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh.
April 6 
 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Sayler's Creek - Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
April 6 
 1893 - Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
April 6 
 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
April 6 
 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
April 6 
 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the west.
April 6 
 1911 – Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
April 6 
 1926 – Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight from Pasco, Washington, to Elko, Nevada.
April 6 
 1930 – Gandhi raised a lump of mud and salt (some say just a pinch, some say just a grain) and declared, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
April 6 
 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
April 6 
 1965 – Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit, is launched.
April 6 
 1968 – In London, United Kingdom, Massiel wins the thirteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Spain singing "La, la, la."
April 6 
 1970 – Four California Highway Patrol officers die in one of the worst cop killings in the CHP's history; this is known as the Newhall Incident.
April 6 
 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - The first day of clear weather in three days allows American forces to start sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
April 6 
 1974 – In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo."
April 6 
 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard from country's northern region attack various government buildings in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
April 6 
 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down, responsibility is disputed.
April 6 
 1998 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 49.82 to close at 9,033.23 - its first-ever close above 9,000.
April 6 
 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first President of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
April 6 
 2009 – A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes near L'Aquila in central Italy, killing around 300 people, mainly as a result of collapsing buildings.
April 6 
 2011 - In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 300 bodies are exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
April 6 
 2012 - Rebel groups declare an independent state called Azawad in northern Mali, which is not internationally recognized as independent.
April 6 
 2018 - South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye is sentenced to 24 years in prison on corruption charges.
April 6 
 2018 - A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team crashes en route to a match in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 14 people.
April 6 
 1824 - George Marsden Waterhouse, Premier of South Australia and 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
April 6 
 2019 - Fritz Hollings, American politician, United States Senator and 106th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1922)
April 9 
 1388 - Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Nafels.
April 9 
 1454 - The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among the northern Italian city states for almost 50 years.
April 9 
 1860 - On his phonautograph machine, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest-known recording of an audible human voice.
April 9 
 1865 – The American Civil War ends, as Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
April 9 
 1867 – By a single vote, the United States Senate approves the treaty with Russia for the purchase of Russian America, present-day Alaska.
April 9 
 1914 - Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
April 9 
 1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins when Canadian corps execute a massive assault on the Vimy Ridge.
April 9 
 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall.
April 9 
 1948 - Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attack the Arab village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100 people.
April 9 
 1963 – Winston Churchill becomes an honorary US citizen, becoming the first non-American to be given this honour.
April 9 
 1969 - The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
April 9 
 1981 - United States Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598) accidentally collides with Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
April 9 
 1989 – April 9 tragedy: In Tbilisi, in the then-Soviet Republic of Georgia, a peaceful pro-independence demonstration is broken up by the Soviet army, killing 20 people, and injuring hundreds.
April 9 
 1991 – The Republic of Georgia, under Zviad Gamsakhurdia, declares independence from the Soviet Union.
April 9 
 1992 – The British Conservative Party under John Major, wins a fourth term in office in the United Kingdom, defeating Neil Kinnock of the Labour Party.
April 9 
 1992 - A US Federal Court finds Panama's former military leader Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering offences.
April 9 
 2003 – Baghdad falls to US forces, as Saddam Hussein's regime crumbles, while a statue of him is torn down in the centre of the city.
April 9 
 2009 – In Tbilisi, 60,000 people gather to protest against the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
April 9 
 2011 – Seven people, including the gunman, are killed in a shooting at a mall, in Alphen an den Rijn, in the Netherlands.
April 9 
 2019 - An election is held for the Israeli Knesset, with Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu looking for a record fifth term in office.
April 9 
 1773 – Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (d. 1824)
April 9 
 2017 - John Clarke, New Zealand-Australian novelist, actor, screenwriter, comedian and satirist (b. 1948)
April 9 
 2021 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, member of the British royal family and consort of Queen Elizabeth II (b.1921)
April 25 
 799 - After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, Pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of Charlemagne at Paderborn, present-day Germany, for protection.
April 25 
 1707 - The Habsburg Army is defeated by the Bourbon Army at Almansa, Spain, in the War of the Spanish Succession.
April 25 
 1792 – La Marseillaise, the current national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
April 25 
 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives on the HMS Challenger on the coast of present-day Western Australia, which he colonises as the British Swan River colony.
April 25 
 1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
April 25 
 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli in present-day Turkey begins, as Australian, French, British and New Zealand forces land at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
April 25 
 1920 - At San Remo Conference, the principal Allied powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman Empire-ruled lands of the Middle East.
April 25 
 1945 – World War II: US and Soviet forces meet in Torgau on the River Elbe, a milestone in ending the war in Europe.
April 25 
 1945 – World War II: The Nazi occupation army in Northern Italy surrenders as the Puppet Fascist regime dissolves.
April 25 
 1945 – Representatives of 50 countries gather in San Francisco, California, to begin UN conferences on International Organisation.
April 25 
 1951 - Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made of Australian and Canadian troops, in the Battle of Kapyong.
April 25 
 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish their paper describing their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
April 25 
 1959 – The St. Lawrence River seaway, linking North America's Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, opens.
April 25 
 1960 - United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation (round-the-world journey) of the globe.
April 25 
 1966 – The city of Tashkent in present-day Uzbekistan (then in the Soviet Union) is destroyed in an earthquake.
April 25 
 1975 - The Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated as North Vietnamese forces close in on South Vietnamese capital Saigon.
April 25 
 1980 - A Boeing 727 of Dan Air Services crashes on approach to landing on Tenerife, hitting a mountain, killing all 146 people on board.
April 25 
 1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs to the nuclear power plant at Tsuruga, Japan.
April 25 
 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov after she sent him a letter expressing concern over a possible nuclear war.
April 25 
 Until 2012, he held the record of oldest man ever, after the claim of Japanese Shigechiyo Izumi is doubted.
April 25 
 2005 – After being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937, the final part of the obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia.
April 25 
 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign a treaty allowing them to join the European Union on January 1, 2007.
April 25 
 2009 – The Left-Wing parties win Iceland's parliamentary election, confirming Johanna Sigurdardottir as Prime Minister.
April 25 
 2015 - 2015 Nepal earthquake: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by several aftershocks, strikes Nepal, and is also felt in nearby countries.
April 25 
 2019 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet for talks in Vladivostok.
April 25 
 Latest date for Easter (March 22 is the earliest), last occurred on this date in 1943 and will next do so in 2038
April 26 
 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
April 26 
 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but 1,000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
April 26 
 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman near Durham, North Carolina.
April 26 
 1865 –  Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia.