the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
January 18 
 2012 - The English language edition of Wikipedia blacks out for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight (Eastern Standard Time) in protest against the SOPA and PIPA internet laws proposed by the United States Congress.
January 18 
 1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
January 19 
 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England in England's reconquest of Normandy.
January 19 
 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden, is injured in the Battle of Bogesund, leading to his death on February 3.
January 19 
 1788 - A second group of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay, present-day Sydney, Australia.
January 19 
 1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington orders British soldiers of the Light and Third Divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
January 19 
 1817 - An army led by Jose de San Martin crosses the Andes from Argentina to Chile, having already liberated Argentina.
January 19 
 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs, the first important Confederate defeat of the war.
January 19 
 1883 - German passenger steamer Cimbria sinks after a collision off the island of Borkum in the North Sea, killing 437 people.
January 19 
 1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record, by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
January 19 
 1942 - Canadian passenger steamer RMS Lady Hawkins is sunk by a German U-boat off North Carolina, killing 251 people.
January 19 
 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.
January 19 
 1969 – Czechoslovakian student Jan Palach dies, three days after setting himself on fire in an act of protest.
January 19 
 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle to be produced in Europe runs off the assembly line in Emden, Germany.
January 19 
 1981 - Iran hostage crisis: US and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months in captivity.
January 19 
 2012 - Wikipedia's English language edition ends its blackout from the previous day, which was a protest action against the SOPA and PIPA laws proposed by the United States Congress.
January 19 
 2013 - Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan survives an attempt to kill him, when his attacker is stopped by security guards.
January 19 
 2014 - A bomb attack on an army convoy in the northern Pakistani city of Bannu kills 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.
January 19 
 1920 - Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)
January 20 
 1788 - The third and main part of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay.
January 20 
 Arthur Phillip decides to move the convict colony slightly further along the coast to Port Jackson, present-day Sydney, Australia.
January 20 
 1877 - Last day of the Constantinople Conference, which results in an agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
January 20 
 1887 - Off the Brazilian coast, British immigrant ship Kapunda collides with the barque Ada Melmore, causing it to sink within 5 minutes, killing 297 of the 313 people on board, including all women and children.
January 20 
 1887 - The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a naval base.
January 20 
 1892 - The first basketball game under rules invented by James Naismith takes place in Springfield, Massachusetts.
January 20 
 1937 – At his second inauguration, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on January 20.
January 20 
 1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to start a third term in office.
January 20 
 1941 - World War II: A German police officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
January 20 
 1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States; he is the first President from the Republican Party since Herbert Hoover left office in 1933.
January 20 
 1980 – Jimmy Carter announces that the US will not participate at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
January 20 
 1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is marked as a federal holiday for the first time.
January 20 
 1991 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law around the country, worsening the civil war between the mainly Muslim North and mainly Christian South, which would become South Sudan in 2011.
January 20 
 1993 – Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States, as the first Democratic President since Jimmy Carter left office in 1981.
January 20 
 2001 – In a coup in the Philippines, Joseph Estrada is replaced as President by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
January 20 
 2007 - A three-man team, only on skis and kites completes a 1759-kilometer (1093-mile) journey to the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, becoming the first people to do this without mechanical help.
January 20 
 2013 - Barack Obama starts his second term as President of the United States, becoming the third US President in a row to serve two terms in office.
January 20 
 2014 - The European Rosetta comet chaser spacecraft is reawakened after a 31-month hibernation on its way to attempt landing on a comet.
January 20 
 2016 - A terrorist attack is carried out on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan, killing 21 people.
January 20 
 2016 - Scientists announce that they are "90% certain" of the existence of a 9th planet in the solar system beyond the Kuiper belt.
January 20 
 2016 - George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-British publisher, philanthropist and newspaper columnist (b. 1919)
January 21 
 1189 – Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
January 21 
 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
January 21 
 1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
January 21 
 1793 – After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
January 21 
 1854 - Iron clipper RMS Tayleur of the White Star Line sinks in the Irish Sea during its first voyage, killing 362 people.
January 21 
 1908 – New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
January 21 
 1924 – Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
January 21 
 1940 - Off the Mediterranean Sea coast of France, an explosion occurs on Italian passenger ship Orazio, causing a fire on board, before the ship sinks, killing 106 people.
January 21 
 1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
January 21 
 1960 - Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns while landing in Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37 people.
January 21 
 It quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy Award for Best Original Score.
January 21 
 1969 – An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
January 21 
 1985 - After being moved to this date because January 20 was a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's second inauguration as President of the United States is held indoors, because of cold and windy weather.
January 21 
 1994 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John Bobbitt.
January 21 
 1997 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
January 21 
 1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard stops a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
January 21 
 2004 – Canada: The residence of reporter, Juliet O'Neill was searched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
January 21 
 2008 – Black Monday on the world's stock markets, the worst day for financial markets since September 11, 2001.
January 21 
 2008 – Marie Smith Jones, the last-surviving speaker of the Eyak language, dies, rendering the language extinct.
January 21 
 2012 - 16-year-old Laura Dekker becomes the youngest person to sail around the world on her own, though this category is no longer included in the Guinness Book of Records.
January 22 
 1517 - The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures the area that is now Egypt in the Battle of Ridaniya.
January 22 
 1689 - The Convention Parliament convenes on whether James II of England/James VII of Scotland abandoned the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
January 22 
 1849 - Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last defenders  of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
January 22 
 1873 - The British clipper Northfleet collides with Spanish steamship Murillo off Kent, killing 293 people.
January 22 
 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: In the Battle of Rorke's Drift, 139 British soldiers successfully defend  their garrison against an onslaught by 3 to 4,000 Zulu warriors.
January 22 
 1915 - Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when their train plunges off the tracks into a canyon.
January 22 
 1927 - Teddy Wakelam gives his first live video commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal FC and Sheffield United.
January 22 
 1941 - World War II: British and Commonwealth forces capture Tobruk in Libya from the Italians in Operation Bypass.
January 22 
 1959 - The Knox Mine Disaster occurs in Patston City, Pennsylvania kills 12 people, as water breaches the mine.
January 22 
 1963 - The Elysee Treaty of cooperation between France and the Federal Republic of Germany is signed by French President Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
January 22 
 1970 - The world's first jumbo jet, a Boeing 747, enters commercial service for the first time, flying from New York City to London.
January 22 
 1973 - A Boeing 737 of the Royal Jordanian Airline explodes at Kano Airport in northern Nigeria, killing 176 people.
January 22 
 1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States shows its decision in Roe vs. Wade, stopping laws that limit abortion during the first six months of being pregnant.
January 22 
 1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a live press conference.
January 22 
 1987 - Philippine Security forces open fire on a crowd  of 10,000 to 15,000 demonstrators in Manila, killing 13 people.
January 22 
 2003 – The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the one before had only been into power for 86 days.
January 22 
 2015 - After Houthi rebels seize the Presidential palace in the capital, Sana'a, Yemen's President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns following months of unrest.
January 23 
 1570 - James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for James VI of Scotland, is murdered by a firearm, the first-recorded murder by gunshot.
January 23 
 1772 - French seafarer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresnet and his second-in-command Jules Crozet discover the Crozet Islands in the Indian Ocean.
January 23 
 1855 - At a magnitude estimated to have been 8.2, the Wairarapa earthquake strikes Wellington, New Zealand.
January 23 
 1870 - In Montana, US cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias massacre.
January 23 
 1909 - The ship RMS Republic collides with the SS Florida off Massachusetts, sinking the next day, killing 6 people.
January 23 
 1937 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of taking part in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
January 23 
 1942 – World War II: Rabaul on the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain is captured by Japanese forces.
January 23 
 1957 - On his 37th birthday, American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights of his "Flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later rename it Frisbee.
January 23 
 1960 – The Bathyscaphe Trieste, with Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh on board, sets a new depth record by travelling 10,911 metres in the Pacific Ocean, at the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
January 23 
 1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gets its first members - Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
January 23 
 1996 - Waltraud Klasnic becomes Premier of Styria, making her the first woman to get this role in an Austrian state.
January 23 
 2000 - The remains of the Star Dust airplane, which disappeared over the Chilean Andes over 50 years earlier, are found.
January 23 
 1928 – Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game (d. 2005)
Flag of the People's Republic of China 
 The big star stands for the communist government, and the four small stars stand for the workers, peasants, middle-class citizens and soldiers.
The Prince 
 The Prince is a book written by Niccolò Machiavelli, who lived in the city of Florence in the country of Italy.
The Prince 
 Some people think that Machiavelli was being honest with his advice and saying what he really thought.
The Prince 
 Other people think that Machiavelli was playing a joke on princes who wanted too much power and did not care about what was right.
Round 
 The contour of a closed curve or surface with no sharp corners, such as an ellipse, circle, rounded rectangle, or sphere
512 
 Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Anastasius I ends a period of moderate ecclestical policy, and starts strongly favoring his own monophysitist beliefs.
February 9 
 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts to be in rebellion.
February 9 
 1825 – After an indecisive election, the United States House of Representatives declares John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
February 9 
 1839 - In the Southern Ocean, British whaling captain John Balleny discovers Sturge Island, part of the group of islands now known as the Balleny Islands.
February 9 
 1870 - US President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress, creating the US Weather Bureau.
February 9 
 1889 - US President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a cabinet-level agency.
February 9 
 1895 - William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which later becomes better known as Volleyball.
February 9 
 1943 – World War II: The Allies declare the island of Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces.
February 9 
 1945 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedie, Norway in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
February 9 
 1945 - World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Fordefjorden, Norway.
February 9 
 1959 - R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational in Plesetsk, northern Russia, Soviet Union.
February 9 
 1995 – On the Space Shuttle, Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton respectively to perform a space walk.
February 9 
 1996 – The Irish Republican Army declares an end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a bomb in London's docklands.
February 9 
 2001 - American submarine US Greenville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School, killing 9 crew members.
February 9 
 2014 - In a referendum, slightly over half of voters in Switzerland support limiting immigration from the European Union.
February 9 
 2016 - Two trains collide near Bad Aibling, Bavaria, southern Germany, killing 12 people and injuring up to 100.
February 9 
 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-born American intellectual, revolutionary and founding father of the United States (d. 1809)
February 9 
 1889 – Peter Lalor, leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (b. 1827)
United Russia 
 United Russia (Russian: Единая Россия) is a Russian political party, which usually labels itself centrist and conservationist.
August 5 
 25 - Gwangwu claims the throne as Emperor during political turmoil, restoring China's Han Dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin Dynasty.
August 5 
 910 - The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex.
August 5 
 1278 - The Siege of Algeciras ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista, pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada.
August 5 
 1305 – William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, was captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
August 5 
 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
August 5 
 1763 – Pontiac's War - Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Native Americans at Bushy Run.
August 5 
 1775 - Spanish seafarer Juan de Ayala cross the Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay, landing on the island of Isla de los Angeles.
August 5 
 1812 – War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
August 5 
 1824 - Greek War of Independence: Constantine Canaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.
August 5 
 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.
August 5 
 1861 – American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
August 5 
 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
August 5 
 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
August 5 
 1874 - Japan begins its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
August 5 
 1906 - Persian Constitutional Reform: Shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar agrees to end feudalism, and for the government to become a constitutional monarchy.
August 5 
 One of its founding aims was to protect and promote the Welsh language, which was close to dying out at the time.
August 5 
 1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes in a sealed tank, before escaping.
August 5 
 1944 – Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
August 5 
 1962 – Movie actress and sex icon, Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills.
August 5 
 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
August 5 
 1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 starts when Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
August 5 
 1969 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a one billion dollar limit on 1974 military aid to South Vietnam.
August 5 
 1971 - The first Pacific Islands Forum is held in Wellington, New Zealand, to encourage countries in Oceania to work together.
August 5 
 1973 - An Arab gunman opens fire in a passenger lounge at Athens International Airport, killing 3 people.
August 5 
 1981 – Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
August 5 
 1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm.
August 5 
 2003 – A car bomb explodes outside the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 12 people, and injuring around 150.
August 5 
 They are discovered to be alive two weeks later, and are successfully rescued in October, in a rescue that is followed around the world.
August 5 
 2013 - Two boys are strangled to death by a rock python that escaped from a pet shop in New Brunswick, Eastern Canada.
August 5 
 2015 - A piece of wreckage found on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion on July 29 is identified as belonging to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing on March 8, 2014.
August 5 
 2017 - The United Nations Security Council, with all members' support, approves sanctions (punishments) against North Korea over its nuclear testing.
August 5 
 2018 - 5 August 2018 Lombok earthquake: An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing over 560 people.
August 5 
 2019 - The government of India removes Indian-administered Kashmir's special status with immediate effect.
August 5 
 1862 – Joseph Merrick, British man, who through his deformities, was often referred to as the Elephant Man (d. 1890)
August 5 
 1940 - Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer, claimed to be first at the North Pole (b. 1865).
February 17 
 364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies under suspicious circumstances, after a short reign of eight months.
February 17 
 1400 - The body of Richard II of England is put on display at the Old St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
February 17 
 1801 – The United States House of Representatives chooses Thomas Jefferson to become the next President of the United States.
February 17 
 1863 - A group of citizens from Geneva founds the International Committee for Relief of the Wounded, which later becomes the International Red Cross.
February 17 
 1864 - American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
February 17 
 As this state is particularly seen as responsible for starting the war, the city is virtually flattened.
February 17 
 1867 – Gyula Andrassy is declared Prime Minister of Hungary after the creation of the co-operative monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
February 17 
 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris after the end of the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War.
February 17 
 1913 - The Armory Art Show begin in New York City, showing works by artists who become influential later in the 20th century.
February 17 
 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins, ending in an American victory over Japanese forces on February 22.
February 17 
 1962 - Parts of northern Germany are severely flooded in the night from February 16, causing 300 deaths in the city of Hamburg alone.
February 17 
 1964 - President of Gabon Leon M'ba is removed from office in a coup by his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame.
February 17 
 1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 space probe is launched to the "Sea of Tranquility" on the Moon.
February 17 
 1980 – Krzyzstof Wielicki and Leszek Clichy becomes the first people to reach the top of Mount Everest during the winter season.
February 17 
 It is not known exactly how many people were killed, though it is thought to have been at least 1,500.
February 17 
 1996 - An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 strikes Irian Jaya, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, killing 166 people.
February 17 
 1996 – After being defeated in a game of chess on February 10, Garry Kasparov wins a six-match series 4-2 against the computer Deep Blue.
February 17 
 1998 – Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Armenian troops kill between 70 and 90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradagli.