the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
June 29 
 2008  UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland: The tournament is won by the Spain national football team, with a goal by Fernando Torres securing a 1-0 victory over the Germany national football team.
June 29 
 2009  American financier Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for a multibillion Dollar fraud.
June 29 
 2014  A building collapse in Delhi, India, kills at least 10 people, and another building collapse in Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu kills at least 17.
July 24 
 1245  Pope Innocent IV forces King Sancho II of Portugal out, and replaces him with Afonso III of Portugal.
July 24 
 1534  Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspe peninsula in present-day Quebec, taking possession of the territory and naming it after Francis I of France.
July 24 
 1814  War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
July 24 
 1832  Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
July 24 
 1847  After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
July 24 
 1864  American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.
July 24 
 1866  Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
July 24 
 1901  O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
July 24 
 1922  The draft of the British Mandate for Palestine is officially confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations.
July 24 
 1923  The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
July 24 
 1929  The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
July 24 
 1935  The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (44 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
July 24 
 1943  World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day.
July 24 
 By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
July 24 
 1956  At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946, almost exactly ten years earlier.
July 24 
 1959  At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate."
July 24 
 1965  Vietnam War:  Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of anti-aircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war.
July 24 
 1966  Michael Petkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, along with Brian Schubert.
July 24 
 1967  During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (
July 24 
 The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
July 24 
 1974  Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
July 24 
 1983  George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
July 24 
 1998  Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers.
July 24 
 2001  Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
July 24 
 2002  James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
July 24 
 After being revealed to have taken illegal drugs to improve his performance during his career, all of his Tour de France titles are removed from the record in 2012.
July 24 
 2010  Love Parade disaster: At a stampede at a music festival in Duisburg, Germany, 19 people are crushed to death.
July 24 
 2013  A passenger train carrying over 218 people crashes just outside Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, northwest Spain, killing at least 80 people and injuring at least 130.
July 24 
 2014  Air Algerie Flight 5017 crashes in Mali on a flight between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers, Algeria.
July 24 
 2016  The International Olympic Committee decides against banning the entire Russian team from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, after its track-and-field athletes had already been banned following a doping scandal.
July 11 
 472 - After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in Saint Peter's Basilica and put to death.
July 11 
 1174 - Baldwin IV, aged 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
July 11 
 The Romanov Dynasty rules Russia until Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is removed during the Russian Revolution in 1917.
July 11 
 1789 - Jacques Necker is dismissed as French finance minister, leading to the Storming of the Bastille three days later.
July 11 
 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
July 11 
 He will later go on to discover another 36 comets over the following 27 years - more than any other person has discovered.
July 11 
 1810 - Frederick Hasselborough sights the Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, named after Lachlan Macquarie, the Scottish Governor of New South Wales.
July 11 
 1893 - A revolution led by general and politician Jose Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
July 11 
 1921 – Former US President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
July 11 
 1930 - Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world-record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a test match against England.
July 11 
 1934 - Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport with assisted take-off.
July 11 
 1943 – World War II: The Germans counter-attack on Sicily, following the start of the Allied invasion of the island.
July 11 
 1972 - The first game of the 1972 World Chess Championship is played in Reykjavik, Iceland, in which Bobby Fischer ends up defeating Boris Spassky on September 1.
July 11 
 1973 – A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in the death of 122 people.
July 11 
 1975 – Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
July 11 
 1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain, killing 216 tourists.
July 11 
 1982 – Defeating West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Italy wins the 1982 edition of the Football World Cup.
July 11 
 1983 – A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
July 11 
 Many inhabitants are murdered, beginning the Srebrenica Massacre, the biggest massacre in Europe since World War II.
July 11 
 2010 – 2010 FIFA World Cup: Spain wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time, after a 1-0 extra time win over the Netherlands, who had also never won the World Cup before.
July 11 
 The game was overshadowed by some violent tackling, and referee Howard Webb gave out a record number of yellow cards for a World Cup final.
July 11 
 2016 - Theresa May is designated as leader of the British Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (from July 13) after Andrea Leadsom withdraws her candidacy.
July 12 
 927 - Aethelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that he (Constantine) will not ally with Viking Kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
July 12 
 1191 - Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
July 12 
 1493 - Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
July 12 
 1543 – King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
July 12 
 1690 – Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) – The army of William III of England defeats that of the deposed King James VII of Scotland and II of England.
July 12 
 1691 – Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) – The decisive victory of William III's forces in Ireland.
July 12 
 1759 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: British cannon start firing on French at Quebec City, from Lévis, Quebec.
July 12 
 1801 - French Revolutionary Wars: British Royal Navy ships inflict heavy damage against Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
July 12 
 1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and formed the Confederation of the Rhine.
July 12 
 1892 – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.
July 12 
 1906 - French military officer Alfred Dreyfus is rehabilitated after his wrongful conviction in the so-called Dreyfus Trial over 12 years earlier.
July 12 
 1917 - Bisbee Deportation: Vigilantes kidnap and deport near 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
July 12 
 1918 - Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachiblows up at Shunan, Western Honshu, killing 621 people.
July 12 
 1932 – Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
July 12 
 1943 – World War II: Battle of Kursk – German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time.
July 12 
 1961 - Due to heavy rain, two reservoirs in the Indian state of Maharashtra break, causing heavy flooding in the city of Pune, killing 1,000 to 2,000 people.
July 12 
 1973 – The 1973 National Archives Fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center.
July 12 
 1993 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri.
July 12 
 1998 – 1998 FIFA World Cup: The France national football team beats the Brazil national football team 3-0, to win the FIFA World Cup for the first time, and in front of their home support.
July 12 
 2004 – An earthquake strikes in Posočje, Slovenia, with 2 dead, and measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale.
July 12 
 2013 - Malala Yousafzai speaks at the UN Headquarters on her 16th birthday, in support of education for all.
July 12 
 2014 - 2014 FIFA World Cup: After being humiliated a few days earlier (7-1) by the Germany national football team in the Semi-Final, the Brazil national football team, hosting the tournament, also loses the Third-Place play-off against the Netherlands national football team, 3-0.
July 12 
 2017 - A massive iceberg, 5,800 square kilometres (2,200 square miles) large, breaks away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica.
July 10 
 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
July 10 
 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes Henry VI of England prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
July 10 
 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion to Vasco da Gama, who died on December 24 the previous year.
July 10 
 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty Zhengde Emperor as a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
July 10 
 1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the English throne following the death of 15-year-old Edward VI of England on July 6.
July 10 
 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
July 10 
 1832 – US president Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
July 10 
 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepcion when a garrison of 77 men is virtually wiped out by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
July 10 
 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
July 10 
 In 2012 it is also recognized as the hottest-recorded temperature in the world after a record set in Libya in 1922 is discredited.
July 10 
 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses are destroyed during rioting and gun battles.
July 10 
 1925 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.
July 10 
 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
July 10 
 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
July 10 
 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British prime minister Clement Attlee.
July 10 
 1973 – The National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh as an independent state.
July 10 
 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
July 10 
 1985 – In response to market demand, Coca-Cola re-introduces its old formula cola as "Coca-Cola Classic" (see New Coke).
July 10 
 1991 – The South African cricket team is re-admitted to the International Cricket Council after being banned for its Apartheid policy.
July 10 
 1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
July 10 
 1997 – London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
July 10 
 Michael Joseph Blassie are returned to his family in St. Louis, Missouri from the Tomb of the Unknowns upon identification through DNA analysis.
July 10 
 1998 – Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
July 10 
 2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
July 10 
 2000 – EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group, is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
July 10 
 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5 million (US $76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
July 10 
 2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people.
July 10 
 2006 – For the first time in history, the positions of president and prime minister in a country are held by twin brothers (In Poland, with Lech Kaczynski and Jaroslaw Kaczynski respectively).
July 10 
 2010 – A week-long manhunt comes to an end in Northumberland, England, when fugitive criminal Raoul Moat commits suicide by gunshot after a stand-off with police.
July 10 
 2011 – British Sunday tabloid newspaper, The News of the World, ends publication after a major phone-hacking scandal.
July 10 
 2019 – Kim Darroch resigns as Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States following a leak of comments criticising the administration of Donald Trump and Trump's subsequent reaction to them.
July 21 
 356 BC  The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (present-day Turkey), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is destroyed in an arson attack.
July 21 
 365  After a magnitude 8 earthquake, and a tsunami, around 50,000 people are killed in and around Alexandria, Egypt.
July 21 
 1342  The St. Mary Magdalene's flood leads to several rivers in central Europe bursting their banks.
July 21 
 1403  Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels in the north of the county of Shropshire.
July 21 
 1545  The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight, during the island's French invasion.
July 21 
 1645  Qing Dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
July 21 
 1718  The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
July 21 
 1798  Battle of the Pyramids: Napoleon Bonaparte's army defeats the army of the Mamluks under the leadership of Mourad Bey.
July 21 
 1873  At Adair, Iowa Jesse James and the James Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the Old American West.
July 21 
 1907  The passenger steamer SS Columbia collides with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California.
July 21 
 1914  Romania, it is decided, is neutral in World War I, after a decision by the country's crown council.
July 21 
 1925  Tennessee high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching the theory of evolution.
July 21 
 1959  Pumpsie Green becomes the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
July 21 
 1969  At 2:56 am on this day (July 20 in the US), Apollo 11 lands, leading to Neil Armstrong becoming the first person to walk on the Moon.
July 21 
 1972  The Troubles: Bloody Friday - Provisional IRA members detonate 22 bombs in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the space of 80 minutes.
July 21 
 1973  Lillehammer affair: The Mossad kills waiter Ahmed Bouchiki in Norway, mistakenly thinking he was terrorist leader Ali Hassan Salameh.
July 21 
 2001  At the end of a fireworks display in Okura Beach, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan, the footbridge connecting the beach to the JR Asagiri railway station becomes crowded, with the resulting crush killing 11 people and injuring 120.
July 21 
 2008  Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is arrested on war crimes charges in Belgrade, after several years in disguise.
July 21 
 2011  The Space Shuttle program ends, as the Space Shuttle Atlantis returns safely to Earth on its last mission.
July 21 
 2013  King Albert II of Belgium leaves the throne to his son, who becomes King Philippe of Belgium, and is therefore the 7th King of the Belgians.
July 21 
 1693  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1768)
July 21 
 1973  Ahmed Bouchiki, Algerian-born victim of mistaken identity, killed by the Mossad in Norway (b. 1943)
July 22 
 1456  Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade - John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
July 22 
 1587  Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off present-day North Carolina to re-establish a deserted colony.
July 22 
 1706  The Acts of Union of 1707 are agreed upon by Commissioners from the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.
July 22 
 1793  Alexander McKenzie reaches the Pacific coast of North America, becoming the first Euro-American to cross Canada.
July 22 
 1796  Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland", after General Moses Cleveland.
July 22 
 1797  Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars.
July 22 
 1802  Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unifies modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
July 22 
 1916  A bomb explodes during a 'Preparedness Day' parade in Market Street in San Francisco, California, killing 10 people and injuring 40.
July 22 
 1927  Sheep herder Killar Kashirov of the Kabardin people becomes the first person to reach the top of the Eastern summit of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia, considered the highest mountain in Europe.
July 22 
 1933  Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, travelling 25,099 kilometres (15,596 miles) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
July 22 
 1942  World War II: Start of the fighting on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea between Australia and Japan.
July 22 
 1944  The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting Communist rule in Poland.
July 22 
 1962  The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after take-off and has to be destroyed.
July 22 
 1994  Gambia's President Dawda Jawara is removed from office in a coup, to be replaced by Yahya Jammeh.
July 22 
 2003  A US airstrike on a compound in Mosul, Iraq, kills Saddam Hussein's sons Uday Hussein, Qusay Hussein (and his son Mustapha) and a security guard.
July 22 
 2005  In London, officers of the Metropolitan Police shoot and kill Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes when he boards a tube train.
July 22 
 2009  A Solar eclipse is seen over East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the longest such event of the 21st century.
July 22 
 2010  The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia was not illegal.
July 22 
 Two hours later, 69 people are killed in a shooting at a political youth event on the island of Utoya, carried out by Anders Behring Breivik.
July 22 
 2013  A baby boy, Prince George of Cambridge, third in line to the British throne, is born to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
July 22 
 2013  Prince George of Cambridge, son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
July 14 
 756 - An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang of China flees the capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advance toward the city.
July 14 
 1769 - Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portola leads the first European land expedition to present-day California.
July 14 
 1771 - Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junipero Serra.
July 14 
 1790 – The citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fete de la Federation.
July 14 
 1798 - The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States, making it a federal crime to write, publish or say heavily critical or false statements about the United States Government.
July 14 
 1853 - Start of the first major World's Fair to take place in the United States, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
July 14 
 1865 - Piz Buin, the highest peak in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, first climbed by a team of four led by Joseph Anton Specht.
July 14 
 1911 - Henry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers, lands his airplane on the South Lawn of the White House.
July 14 
 1916 - World War I: Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme.
July 14 
 1943 - In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the US National Monument in honor of an African American.
July 14 
 1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded outside the Italian Parliament.