the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
October 17 
 2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
October 17 
 1768 – Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1838)
October 17 
 1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950)
October 17 
 1905 – Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1996)
October 17 
 1912   – Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001)
October 17 
 1922   – Pierre Juneau, Canadian broadcaster and politician, co-founded the Montreal World Film Festival (d. 2012)
October 17 
 1935 – Sydney Chapman, English architect and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (d. 2014)
October 17 
 1673 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
October 17 
 1806 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
October 17 
 1893 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
October 17 
 1978   – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
October 17 
 2001   – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
October 17 
 2008   – Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1923)
October 17 
 2012   – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
October 17 
 2013   – Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
October 17 
 2013   – Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
1912 
 January 17 – British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
1912 
 February 8 – Mexican Revolution – Military rebellion against the rule of Francisco Madero begins in Mexico City.
1912 
 March 1 – Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe
1912 
 March 5 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
1912 
 March 7 – French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours
1912 
 March 16 – Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time"
1912 
 March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C. to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
July 31 
 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
July 31 
 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to land on the island of Trinidad.
July 31 
 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
July 31 
 1712 - Great Northern War: Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea, with an inconclusive result.
July 31 
 1715 - An 11-ship Spanish treasure fleet is lost in a hurricane between the Florida Keys and Havana, Cuba, killing at least 1,000 people.
July 31 
 1763 – Pontiac's War: The Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run.
July 31 
 1865 - The first Narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
July 31 
 1901 - With hot-air balloon Preussen, Arthur Berson and Reinhard Suering reach a record height of 10,800 meters.
July 31 
 1914 - French Socialist politician Jean Jaurès is assassinated in a Paris café by the Nationalist Raoul Villain.
July 31 
 1936 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo.
July 31 
 However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
July 31 
 1941 – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
July 31 
 1945 – Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
July 31 
 1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
July 31 
 1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, also involving Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni.
July 31 
 1956 – Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen.
July 31 
 1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.
July 31 
 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
July 31 
 1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
July 31 
 1977 – David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer, carries out his last murder, shooting Stacey Moskowitz.
July 31 
 1987 – A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
July 31 
 1999 – NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
July 31 
 2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
July 31 
 2008 – Scientists report that the Phoenix spacecraft had confirmed the presence of frozen water on the planet Mars.
July 31 
 Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party claims a landslide victory, but Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change declares the election null and void on the grounds of vote-rigging.
July 31 
 2014 - Shortly before midnight, gas explosions occur in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killing at least 26 people.
July 31 
 2017 - Los Angeles, California, volunteers to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, effectively giving the 2024 Summer Olympics to Paris.
July 31 
 2017 - US President Donald Trump fires White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, only ten days after giving him the job.
Aileen Wuornos 
 Aileen Carol Wuornos Pralle (born Aileen Carol Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer.
Aileen Wuornos 
 She confessed to killing six men in Florida and was executed in Florida State Prison by lethal injection for the murders.
Aileen Wuornos 
 Wuornos said that the men she killed had raped her or tried to rape her while she was working as a prostitute.
May 20 
 685 - The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
May 20 
 1202 – The Mediterranean Sea area and the Middle East are shaken by a strong earthquake, which is believed to have killed a million people.
May 20 
 1449 - The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as the main Royal Family of Portugal.
May 20 
 1520 - The massacre at the Festival of Toxcatl occurs during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
May 20 
 1631 - The city of Magdeburg is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of the people who live there are massacred, as one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
May 20 
 1875 - Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 countries, leading to the creation of the International System of Units.
May 20 
 1899 - The first traffic ticket in the US is handed out, to taxi driver Jacob German, who is arrested.
May 20 
 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States, with Tomas Estrada Palma as its first President.
May 20 
 1927 - Treaty of Jeddah: The UK recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, which later becomes Saudi Arabia.
May 20 
 1949 - In the US, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the forerunner of the National Security Agency, is established.
May 20 
 1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Boeing 720, crashes on landing at Cairo International Airport in Egypt, killing 119 people.
May 20 
 1983 – First publication of the discovery of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS, in the Science journal, by Luc Montagnier.
May 20 
 1989 – Authorities in China declare martial law, leading to the crushing of pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square two weeks later.
May 20 
 2006 - Nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh go on strike, starting a series of strikes  against poor working conditions.
May 20 
 2006 – Finnish monster-rock band Lordi wins the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, with 292 points.
May 20 
 2012 – Taur Matan Ruak becomes President of East Timor on the 10th anniversary of its independence from Indonesia.
May 20 
 2012 – A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Northern Italy, killing 7 people and destroying many historic buildings.
May 20 
 2012 – A solar eclipse is seen over part of East Asia, the North Pacific Ocean and Western North America.
May 20 
 2013 - 2013 Moore tornado: A tornado strikes the suburbs of Oklahoma City, with the suburb of Moore being worst affected.
May 20 
 1918 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
May 20 
 1885 - Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, American politician, 29th United States Secretary of State (b. 1817)
May 20 
 2012 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan intelligence officer, only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing (b. 1952)
June 11 
 1488 - The Battle of Sauchieburn is fought between rebel Lords and King James III of Scotland, who dies in the battle.
June 11 
 1594 - King Philip II of Spain recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines.
June 11 
 1770 – James Cook reaches the Great Barrier Reef, after his ship, the HMS Endeavour, ran aground there.
June 11 
 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston to the committee of five, to draft the Declaration of Independence.
June 11 
 1865 - The naval Battle of Riachuelo in the War of the Triple Alliance is fought, with Brazil defeating Paraguay.
June 11 
 1903 - A group of Serbian military officer storm the royal palace in Belgrade and kill King Alexander Obrenovich and Queen Draga of Serbia.
June 11 
 1917 - Alexander of Greece becomes King, after Constantine I of Greece abdicates the throne under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
June 11 
 1935 - Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, in Alpine, New Jersey.
June 11 
 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek orders the flooding of the Yellow River to halt Japanese forces, though more than 500,000 people are killed after not being warned before the flooding.
June 11 
 1955 – More than 80 people are killed in the Le Mans Disaster, the deadliest disaster in motorsport.
June 11 
 1961 - In the night to June 12, 37 electricity pylons are blown up in South Tyrol, a region of Northern Italy that used to be part of Austria.
June 11 
 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz prison, but are never seen again.
June 11 
 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself on fire with gasoline in Saigon, in protest at the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam, under Ngo Dinh Diem.
June 11 
 1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace refuses to let African American students Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood enroll at the University of Alabama, though he later gives in.
June 11 
 1964 – Retired World War II veteran Walter Seifert, on his 42nd birthday, runs amok in a Cologne school, killing at least 8 children and two teachers and injures many more with a flame thrower and a lance.
June 11 
 1970 - Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington become the first female United States Army generals.
June 11 
 2008 – Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper makes a historic apology to the First Nations for abuse in the separation of children from their homes, families and cultures.
June 11 
 2019 - 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: The United States sets a tournament record for the margin of victory, defeating Thailand 13-0 in its opening game of the competition.
June 11 
 2014 - Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and activist (b. 1922)
April 5 
 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
April 5 
 1566 - Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.
April 5 
 1710 - The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent, establishing the copyright law of Great Britain.
April 5 
 1792 – United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states.
April 5 
 1818 - Battle of Maipu: Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose de San Martin, wins a decisive victory over Spain, with 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chileans patriots dying in the battle.
April 5 
 The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
April 5 
 1902 – A stand at the Ibrox stadium in Glasgow collapses during a Scotland v. England football match, killing 25 people.
April 5 
 1908 – The Germany national football team played its first-ever match, losing 5-3 to the Switzerland national football team, which recorded its first-ever win.
April 5 
 1930 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
April 5 
 1932 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building, leading to the end of self-government.
April 5 
 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: A F5 tornado slams into the north side of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 233.
April 5 
 1943 - World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally kill over 900 civilians in the town of Mortsel, Belgium.
April 5 
 1944 - World War II: 270 people living in the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by German troops.
April 5 
 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the USSR allowing "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory."
April 5 
 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
April 5 
 1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
April 5 
 1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna won the general elections by many votes and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
April 5 
 1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations are held in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other cities around the United States.
April 5 
 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
April 5 
 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces invade Binh Long Province, launching a second front of the Nguyen Hue Offensive.
April 5 
 1976 - James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Labour Party, replacing Harold Wilson in both positions.
April 5 
 1980 - A memorial to Chiang Kai-shek is opened in Taipei, Taiwan, on the fifth anniversary of his death.
April 5 
 1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protestor Suada Dilberovic on the Skenderija Bridge.
April 5 
 1993 – The Child Support Act 1991, administered by the Child Support Agency, comes into effect in the United Kingdom.
April 5 
 1994 - Kurt Cobain, popular musician in the rock music band Nirvana, commits suicide at the age of 27.
April 5 
 1998 – In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
April 5 
 1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
April 5 
 1999 – In Laramie, Wyoming, United States, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.
April 5 
 2005 – ABC News anchor Peter Jennings announces on World News Tonight that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
April 5 
 2009 – North Korea launches the Kwangmyongsong rocket, which passed over Japan, and led to international condemnation.
April 5 
 2016 - Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns after his name appeared in the Panama Papers about tax schemes of the rich and famous.
April 5 
 1472 – Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)
January 26 
 1564 - The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a difference between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
January 26 
 1564 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula, during the Livonian War.
January 26 
 1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records.
January 26 
 1782 - American War of Independence: The Naval Battle of Saint Kitts between British and French forces ends in British victory under Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, though the French still manage to take over the island anyway.
January 26 
 1785 – Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
January 26 
 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sail into Sydney Harbour to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
January 26 
 1802 – The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.
January 26 
 1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (but temporary) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
January 26 
 1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign.
January 26 
 1863 – American Civil War: The Governor of Massachusetts receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
January 26 
 1911 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier is performed, at the Dresden State Opera, for the first time.
January 26 
 1918 - Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the Helsinki Workers' Hall, top symbolically mark the start of the war.
January 26 
 1945 - World War II: The Red Army begins surrounding the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil, Prussia.
January 26 
 1947 - A Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, killing all 22 people on board, including Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and the American singer and actress Grace Moore.
January 26 
 1950 – India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President.
January 26 
 1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper class Egyptian businesses.
January 26 
 1960 - Danny Heater sets a high school basketball record when he scores 135 points in a game for Burnsville High School, West Virginia.
January 26 
 1978 - Great Blizzard of 1978: A severe blizzard strikes Ohio and the Great Lakes region, with heavy snow at a wind speed of up to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour).
January 26 
 1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera is first performed on Broadway, New York City.
January 26 
 1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
January 26 
 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
January 26 
 2003 – Super Bowl XXXVII: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Oakland Raiders, 48-21, earning the Buccaneers their first Vince Lombardi Trophy.
January 26 
 2005 – Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
January 26 
 2009 - Rioting occurs in Antananarivo, Madagascar, later developing into a political crisis forcing President Marc Ravalomanana out of office.
January 26 
 2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapse and Prime Minister Geir Haarde immediately resigns from office.
January 26 
 2015 - Alexis Tsipras becomes Prime Minister of Greece after his left-wing SYRIZA movement won the parliamentary election.
January 26 
 2019 - Naomi Osaka wins her second Grand Slam singles tennis title in a row, defeating Petra Kvitová in the final of the Australian Open to become the first player from Asia to hold the Number One ranking.
January 26 
 2020 - Five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others are killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
January 26 
 1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish politician, former Secretary-General of NATO and former Prime Minister of Denmark
January 26 
 1893 – Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (born 1819)
January 26 
 1947 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne, father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (born 1906)
January 27 
 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "Noble Train of Artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
January 27 
 1825 – U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
January 27 
 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
January 27 
 1939 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of United States war planes to France.
January 27 
 Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.
January 27 
 1943 – World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.
January 27 
 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
January 27 
 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
January 27 
 1983 – World's longest underwater tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshū and Hokkaido.
January 27 
 1984 – Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9.25 inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.