the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
December 4 
 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
December 4 
 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first woman mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).
December 4 
 1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
December 4 
 1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut (he was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
December 4 
 1994 – Pakistan wins World Hockey Championship after 12 years, beating the Netherlands by four goals to three, in Sydney.
December 4 
 2001 – Lisa Beamer, wife of Todd Beamer, through the Todd M. Beamer Foundation, registers  the trademark "Let's Roll" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office less than three months after his death in the September 11 attacks in the United States.
December 4 
 2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protested for democracy and called on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
December 4 
 2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time near the Ogasawara Islands of Japan.
December 4 
 2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen defeats Norbert Hofer in the re-run of Austria's presidential election.
December 4 
 2016 - Constitutional reform is rejected by a majority in a national referendum in Italy, leading to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's announcement that he is to resign from office.
December 4 
 1935 – Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1850)
December 4 
 2012 – Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the world from June 21, 2011 (b. 1896)
December 5 
 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII writes a Papal Bull that sets the inquisition into full swing and leads to the deaths hundreds of thousands of people accused of being witches
December 5 
 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
December 5 
 1757 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen - Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
December 5 
 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale (he later founded  Christie's, the world's oldest auction house).
December 5 
 1776 – At the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Phi Beta Kappa is founded as the first scholastic  fraternity in the United States.
December 5 
 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes a seat in the United States House of Representatives.
December 5 
 1848 – California gold rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
December 5 
 1873 – In Boston, Massachusetts, Warren Avenue Baptist Church sexton Thomas Piper strangles and beats to death his first victim, Bridget Landregan (the press later dubbed the then unknown serial killer "The Boston Belfry Murderer").
December 5 
 1933 – Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 3/4th of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).
December 5 
 1939 - The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was removed in a republican coup in 1889, are taken back to Brazil and reburied on the 48th anniversary of his death, and just over 50 years after losing power.
December 5 
 1941 – The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row).
December 5 
 1955 – The trade unions American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations decide to merge and form the AFL-CIO.
December 5 
 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost.
December 5 
 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is given the first Medal of Honor of the war.
December 5 
 1979 – Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
December 5 
 1992 – Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only US Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
December 5 
 2007 - A gunman shoots 8 people dead at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Nebraska, with an assault rifle, before killing himself.
December 5 
 2017 - The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, for doping offences.
December 5 
 1859 - John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1935)
December 5 
 1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984)
December 5 
 1965 – Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
December 5 
 2013 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Anti-Apartheid activist, statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1918)
December 6 
 1240 - Mongol Empire's invasion of the Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols.
December 6 
 1745 - Charles Edward Stuart's army begins its retreat during the Second Jacobite Rising, after getting as far south as Derby.
December 6 
 1917 - World War I: The USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
December 6 
 1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
December 6 
 1928 - The Colombian government sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
December 6 
 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
December 6 
 1956 - A violent water polo match is played between Hungary and the Soviet Union during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, shortly after the Soviet Union crsuhed the Hungarian Revolution.
December 6 
 1956 - At the 1956 Summer Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan becomes the youngest Olympic champion until that point.
December 6 
 1957 - Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion on Vanguard TV3 ends the first US attempt to launch a satellite  into Earth's orbit.
December 6 
 1973 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
December 6 
 1975 - The Troubles: Fleeing from police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street in London, beginning a six-day siege.
December 6 
 1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
December 6 
 1982 - The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bomb a pub frequently used by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing 11 soldiers and 6 civilians.
December 6 
 1985 - The Boston Celtics pick up their only home loss of the 1985-86 NBA season, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers at Boston Garden.
December 6 
 1989 – At the École Polytechnique in Montreal, an anti-feminist gunman shoots and kills 14 young women.
December 6 
 1991 – The Yugoslav People's Army bombards Dubrovnik, Croatia, after laying siege to the city in May.
December 6 
 1997 - A Russian Antonov An-24 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, killing 67 people.
December 6 
 2005 - An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing 84 people on board and 44 on the ground.
December 6 
 2005 – David Cameron becomes the leader of the British Conservative Party, succeeding Michael Howard.
December 6 
 2006 – NASA reveals photographs of Mars from the Mars Global Surveyor, suggesting a liquid presence on the planet.
December 6 
 2008 – Riots erupt in Greece after the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
December 6 
 1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French lawyer, botanist and politician (d. 1794)
December 7 
 1724 – religious troubles were followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
December 7 
 1776 - Glibert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a general.
December 7 
 1962 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
December 7 
 1970 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt makes a gesture of reconciliation towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, known as the "Kniefall", as he falls to his knees in front of the city's memorial.
December 7 
 1972 - Apollo 17 launches, as the last mission to-date to fly to the Moon; On this mission, the famous "Blue Marble" photograph of the Earth is taken.
December 7 
 1983 - An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxing down the runway at Madrid-Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
December 7 
 1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 people on board.
December 7 
 1988 – In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 people homeless.
December 7 
 1999 – The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
December 7 
 2007 - The "Hebei Spirit" oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.
December 7 
 2015 - Then-US Presidential candidate Donald Trump calls for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.
December 7 
 2016 - All 47 people on board die when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashes near Islamabad.
December 8 
 395 - China: Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal of Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
December 8 
 757 - China: Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
December 8 
 1660 – A woman appears on an English public stage for the first time, as Desdemona, in a production of William Shakespeare's Othello.
December 8 
 1912 - Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility of war breaking out.
December 8 
 1914 - World War I: A squadron of the UK's Royal Navy defeats a weaker squadron of the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
December 8 
 1941 – World War II: Japan invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines, just after the Pearl Harbor attack.
December 8 
 1963 – PanAm Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning in Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
December 8 
 1972 - United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after abandoning its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45 people.
December 8 
 1980 – John Lennon is shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Apartment building in New York City.
December 8 
 1982 – December murders: In Suriname, 13 civilians and 2 military officers, opposed to the military regime of Desi Bouterse, are killed.
December 8 
 1987 - Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, Australia, before committing suicide.
December 8 
 1988 - A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50.
December 8 
 1991 – Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and forming the Commonwealth of Independent States.
December 8 
 2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, creating the South American Community of Nations.
December 8 
 2012 - At the UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar, it is agreed that the Kyoto Protocol is to be extended until 2020.
December 9 
 1531 - The Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have first appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
December 9 
 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose in the Battle of Great Bridge and leave Virginia shortly after.
December 9 
 1824 – Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian troops defeat the Spanish, who then end their colonial rule over Peru.
December 9 
 1872 – P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American State Governor in the US, in Louisiana.
December 9 
 1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States Department of War.
December 9 
 1917 - World War I: Hussein al-Husseyni, Ottoman Mayor of Jerusalem, surrenders the city to the British.
December 9 
 1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
December 9 
 1935 - American football: The trophy that later becomes the Heisman Trophy is given for the first time.
December 9 
 1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani, Egypt.
December 9 
 1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Japan.
December 9 
 1946 - The Doctors' trial begins over physicians believed to have committed Nazi war crimes and medical experiments on people.
December 9 
 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in prison for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
December 9 
 1956 - Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, killing all 62 people on board.
December 9 
 1998 - In the Swiss Federal Council, Ruth Dreifuss is chosen to be Switzerland's President for the year 1999, making her the first woman to take up the role, on January 1, 1999.
December 9 
 2008 – Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal agents on a number of crimes, including trying to sell the United States Senate Seat of Barack Obama, who had been elected President.
December 9 
 2016 - President of South Korea Park Geun-hye is impeached by the country's National Assembly, as a result of a major corruption scandal.
December 9 
 2019 - 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption: The Whakaari-White Island volcano in New Zealand erupts, killing at least 18 people.
December 9 
 1944 - Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (d. 2020)
December 9 
 1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
December 9 
 1960 – Caroline Lucas, English politician, MP for and former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
November 8 
 1278 - Tran Thanh Tang, second Emperor of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty, decides to pass the throne to crown prince Tran Kham.
November 8 
 1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
November 8 
 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 persons.
November 8 
 1576 - Eighty Years' War: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
November 8 
 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
November 8 
 1745 - Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of around 5,000 that would later take part in the Battle of Culloden.
November 8 
 1798 - British seafarer John Fearn becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Nauru, which he names Pleasant Island.
November 8 
 1861 - American Civil War: The Trent Affair - The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparkinga diplomatic crisis between the UK and the USA.
November 8 
 1864 – U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
November 8 
 1892 – U.S. presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
November 8 
 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
November 8 
 1932 – U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
November 8 
 1933 - As part of the New Deal program, Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for over 4 million unemployed.
November 8 
 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
November 8 
 1940 - Greco-Italian War: Italy's invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units push back the Italians in the Battle of Elaia-Kalamas.
November 8 
 1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
November 8 
 1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyist XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.),
November 8 
 and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa.
November 8 
 Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
November 8 
 1957 - The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the South Pacific Ocean.
November 8 
 1959 - Basketball player Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers sets a new NBA record, scoring 64 points, against the Boston Celtics.
November 8 
 1960 – U.S. presidential election: John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon in a very close election.
November 8 
 1966 – Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
November 8 
 1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million United States Dollars.
November 8 
 1974 – In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
November 8 
 1977 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and professor, discovers the tomb of Philip of Macedon at Vergina, Greece.
November 8 
 1982 – Wethersfield, Connecticut, a meteorite crashed through the roof of Wanda and Bob Donahue's house at 461 Church Street.
November 8 
 1983 - Lubango, Angola - A Boeing 727 of Angola Airlines crashes and explodes shortly after take-off, killing all 130 people on board.
November 8 
 1994 – For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.
November 8 
 2000 - A re-count of electoral votes in Florida takes place, because of a dispute in the 2000 United States Presidential Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
November 8 
 2002 - Iraq Disarmament Crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm, or face "serious questions".
November 8 
 2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
November 8 
 2006 - After the Republican Party made losses in the mid-term elections, Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense, submits his resignation to George W. Bush.
November 8 
 2014 - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the world is close to another Cold War, over tensions between the West and Russia and armed conflicts in the Middle East, in a speech marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
November 8 
 2016 - United States presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States over Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College, though Clinton had won more votes overall.
November 8 
 2017 - Priti Patel resigns from the British cabinet because of a controversy over undeclared meetings with Israeli government ministers.
November 8 
 2018 - Camp Fire: A massive fire kills 85 people in Butte County, California; it is one of the deadliest-ever forest fires in the United States, and destroys the town of Paradise.
November 8 
 1831 - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General (d. 1880)
November 8 
 1846 - William Robertson Smith, Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar and Free Church of Scotland minister (d. 1894)
November 9 
 1456 - Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present-day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.
November 9 
 1861 - The first-documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.
November 9 
 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.
November 9 
 1867 - The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
November 9 
 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
November 9 
 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
November 9 
 1918 – Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
November 9 
 1923 – In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
November 9 
 1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
November 9 
 1960 - Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.
November 9 
 1963 - At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
November 9 
 1965 - A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.
November 9 
 1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
November 9 
 1989 – Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
November 9 
 1993 – The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.
November 9 
 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
November 9 
 2007 - The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens'  telecommunications traffic data for six months.
November 9 
 2019 - A religious site disputed by both Muslims and Hindus in Ayodhya, India, is given to Hindus by a court decision.
November 9 
 1719 - Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
November 9 
 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States and 55th Governor of Maryland (d. 1996)