the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
June 4 
 1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
June 4 
 1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
June 4 
 1896 – Henry Ford test-drives the first automobile he designed – the Quadricycle (it was also the first automobile he ever drove).
June 4 
 1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V of the United Kingdom's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby.
June 4 
 1917 – The very first Pulitzer Prizes are given:  Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe).
June 4 
 Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history (for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days).
June 4 
 1919 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women,  and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
June 4 
 1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
June 4 
 1924 – During a British expedition, Edward Felix Norton reaches the height of  above sea level (on Mount Everest), the highest point climbed by anyone until then, but because of it being evening, he is unable to go up to the summit.
June 4 
 1939 – Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba.
June 4 
 1940 – World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends;  British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
June 4 
 1942 – World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).
June 4 
 Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
June 4 
 1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
June 4 
 1950 – With a 5-2 win over the Poland national football team, the Hungary national football team starts a winning run that ends in the FIFA World Cup final in 1954.
June 4 
 1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland Flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, England, killing 72 people.
June 4 
 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV is King, a position he had held since 1965 when Tonga was a British protectorate.
June 4 
 1973 – A patent for the automated teller machine (ATM) is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
June 4 
 1974 – Baseball: The Cleveland Indians host "Ten Cent Beer Night", but have to forfeit the game to the  Texas Rangers due to drunken and unruly fans.
June 4 
 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
June 4 
 1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe.
June 4 
 1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
June 4 
 1991 – Britain's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others – the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
June 4 
 2001 – Gyanendra becomes King of Nepal, after the death of Dipendra of Nepal, who was King for three days after the Royal Massacre, in which he was injured.
June 4 
 2003 – U.S. lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation.
June 4 
 2011 – The Puyehue Cordon Caulle volcanic structure in Chile erupts, sending an ash cloud over parts of South America and as far away as Oceania.
June 4 
 1801 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1750)
June 4 
 1922 - W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (born 1864)
June 4 
 2011 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (born 1930)
November 12 
 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of dying Constantine VIII
November 12 
 1892 - William Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, taking part in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
November 12 
 1893 - The Treaty of the Durand is signed between present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has become the international border between the two countries.
November 12 
 1908 - An explosion at a mine shaft in Hamm, present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, kills 348 people.
November 12 
 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with complete control of the Soviet Union.
November 12 
 1928 - The ship SS Vestris sinks around 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing over 110 people.
November 12 
 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal.
November 12 
 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches one of the most successful bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway.
November 12 
 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
November 12 
 1958 - A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first successful climb of the "Nose" on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California.
November 12 
 1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
November 12 
 1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempt to destroy a rotting bleached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now-infamous "exploding whale" incident.
November 12 
 1973 - It is announced that Gerald Ford is to succeed Spiro Agnew as Vice President of the United States.
November 12 
 1982 – In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid Brezhnev.
November 12 
 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
November 12 
 1991 – Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
November 12 
 As a former Portuguese colony, it is the first Commonwealth member not to have had any historical links with the present-day United Kingdom.
November 12 
 1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin II-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, India, killing 349 people in the deadliest mid-air collision to date.
November 12 
 2001 – Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops.
November 12 
 2001 – A plane crash in the New York Borough of Queens kills all (260) of those on board, and 5 people on the ground.
November 12 
 American Airlines Flight 587 had come down shortly after take-off and was bound for the Dominican Republic.
November 12 
 2003 - Iraq War: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, including the war's first Italian casualties, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on the Italian police base.
November 12 
 2003 - Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record, 501 kilometers per hour (311 miles per hour), for commercial railways systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
November 12 
 2014 - The Philae lander from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe lands on the surface of the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
November 12 
 2017 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the Iran-Iraq border area, killing at least 450 people and injuring hundreds.
November 12 
 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French politician, first Mayor of Paris (executed on the Guillotine) (b. 1736)
September 14 
 1515  After the Battle of Marignano and defeat to French forces, Switzerland declares itself 'for ever' neutral.
September 14 
 1901  President of the United States William McKinley dies more than one week after being shot by Leon Czolgosz.
September 14 
 1939  World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzel in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify taking over Estonia.
September 14 
 1940  The Hungarian army, supported by local Hungarians, kills 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Salay, Transylvania.
September 14 
 1954  In a top-secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40-kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
September 14 
 1958  The first two Post-World War II German rockets, designed by engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
September 14 
 1959  The Soviet Lunik 2 probe crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach the Moon.
September 14 
 1960  With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power from Patrice Lumumba in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, suspending the parliament and constitution.
September 14 
 1975  Rembrandt van Rijn's painting, The Night Watch, is attacked and damaged by a man with a knife at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
September 14 
 1979  President of Afghanistan Nur Muhammad Taraki is deposed and killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes President.
September 14 
 1984  Joe Kittinger flies a hot-air balloon across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first person to do so.
September 14 
 1987  Baseball: The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
September 14 
 1992  The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the break-away Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
September 14 
 2003  In a coup in Guinea-Bissau, Kumba Iala is removed from power by Verissimo Correia Seabra, who takes measures towards democratisation of the country.
September 14 
 2008  Aeroflot Flight 821 crashes on approach to Perm Airport, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.
September 14 
 2014  Sweden's parliamentary election ends with the Social Democrats under Stefan Löfven as the largest party.
September 14 
 2018  Hurricane Florence, downgraded to a tropical storm, hits the states of North and South Carolina on the east coast of the United States.
September 14 
 1852  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
July 30 
 634  Battle of Ajnadayn: Byzantine Empire forces under Theodore are defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh in present-day Israel.
July 30 
 1419  First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill 7 members of the Prague city council.
July 30 
 1502  Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay of Islands off present-day Honduras during his fourth voyage.
July 30 
 1619  Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative factory in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, meets for the first time.
July 30 
 Frederick Henry, Prince Orange begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish army.
July 30 
 1656  Swedish forces under Charles X Gustaf of Sweden defeat forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
July 30 
 1676  Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the people of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion, against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
July 30 
 1863  American Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
July 30 
 1864  American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
July 30 
 1912  Emperor Meiji of Japan dies, being succeeded by his son Yoshihito, now known as Emperor Taisho.
July 30 
 1966  England wins the FIFA World Cup, beating West Germany 4-2, in a match that included the disputed Wembley Goal.
July 30 
 1971  An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 aircraft and a Japanese Air Force F-86 plane collide over Morioka, Japan, killing 162 people.
July 30 
 1971  Apollo program: Apollo 15 mission - David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon'' land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
July 30 
 1975  Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa disappears from a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, and is never seen or heard from again.
July 30 
 2000  Norway gifts the Heimaey Stave Church to Iceland to mark the country's 1000 years of Christianity.
July 30 
 2004  Gas pipeline explodes in the village of Ghislenghien in Belgium, killing 24 people and injuring 132.
July 30 
 2006  The BBC music programme Top of the Pops is shown for the last time, after a run of more than 42 years.
July 30 
 2017  Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 American diplomats in response to US sanctions against Russia.
July 30 
 2018  Parliamentary and Presidential elections are held in Zimbabwe, the first ones to take place since the resignation of Robert Mugabe.
September 28 
 365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople and proclaims himself Roman Emperor.
September 28 
 1538 - The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over the Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
September 28 
 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown Heights, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
September 28 
 1787 – The just completed United States Constitution is voted on by the United States Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.
September 28 
 1820 – The tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts.
September 28 
 1892 - The first night match in American football takes place, between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
September 28 
 1901 - Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than 40 American soldiers and lose 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
September 28 
 1912 - Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted official to die in an airplane crash, along with Lewis C. Rockwell at College Park, Maryland.
September 28 
 1939 – Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
September 28 
 1951 - CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, though withdraws them less than a month later.
September 28 
 1961 – A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
September 28 
 1964 - The Warren Commission concludes there was no conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
September 28 
 1973 – ITT Building in New York City is bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 Coup in Chile.
September 28 
 1992 - An Airbus A300 of Pakistan International Airlines strikes a mountain near Kathmandu, killing all 117 on board.
September 28 
 2004 – Wayne Rooney makes his long-awaited Manchester United debut, scoring a hat-trick in the 6-2 Champions League victory.
September 28 
 2009 – 157 protesters are killed in Guinea, as they demonstrated against the military rule of Moussa Dadis Camara.
September 28 
 2012 - A plane crashes shortly after take-off from Kathmandu and bursts into flames, killing all 19 people on board.
September 28 
 2013 - Pakistan is struck by a second earthquake, after one of magnitude 7.7 struck four days earlier.
September 28 
 2013 - Several ministers from Silvio Berlusconi's party resign from the coalition government of Enrico Letta in Italy.
September 28 
 2014 - Europe wins its third Ryder Cup golf championship in-a-row, defeating the United States at Gleneagles, Scotland.
September 28 
 2016 - International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that came from Russia.
September 28 
 2018 - 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami: The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is hit by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and a tsunami, killing an estimated 4,340 people.
September 28 
 1844 - Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
September 28 
 1887 – Avery Brundage, American sports official, President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
September 28 
 1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British statesman and diplomat (born 1717)
February 6 
 1843 - The US' first minstrel show, the Virginia Minstrels, begins at Bowery Amphitheatre in new York City.
February 6 
 1862 - American Civil War: The United States Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
February 6 
 1899 - Spanish-American War: The United States Senate accepts the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Spain.
February 6 
 1934 - Far-right groups rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
February 6 
 1951 - A Pennsylvania railroad passenger train crashes off the track near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people.
February 6 
 1952 – Accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, after the death of George VI.
February 6 
 1958 – Munich Air Disaster: A plane whose passengers include several Manchester United footballers, crashes shortly after take-off in blizzard conditions in Munich, Germany.
February 6 
 1981 - The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on the Ugandan Army installation in the Central Mubenda District, starting the Ugandan Bush War.
February 6 
 1989 – Berlin Wall: Chris Gueffroy becomes the last person to die while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin over the Berlin Wall.
February 6 
 1989 – Talks begin in Warsaw between Poland's Communist leaders and respresentatives of the Solidarity movement.
February 6 
 1996 - Birgenair Flight 301 crashes off the west coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board.
February 6 
 2012 - Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on the throne as Queen of the United Kingdom and several countries in the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming only the second British monarch, after Queen Victoria, to reach this milestone.
February 6 
 2018 - "Cheddar Man", the earliest-known human known to have lived in present-day Great Britain, 9,000 year ago, is revealed to have had dark skin and blue eyes.
February 6 
 1892 – William P. Murphy, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987)
February 6 
 Accession Day (since 1952), in the United Kingdom and all the other countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State
1911 
 April 19 – Michel Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose debuts in Monte Carlo with Nijinsky in the title role
March 29 
 502 - King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians  subject to the same laws.
March 29 
 1461 - Wars of the Roses: In the Battle of Towton, Edward of York defeats Margaret of Anjou to become King Edward IV of England.
March 29 
 1632 - The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
March 29 
 1847 - Mexican-American War: US forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz, Mexico, after a siege.
March 29 
 1865 - American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
March 29 
 1867 - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which creates the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.
March 29 
 1886 - Wilhelm Steinitz becomes the first world champion in chess, after defeating Johannes Zukertort.
March 29 
 1941 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
March 29 
 1942 - World War II: RAF Bomber Command carries out a bombing raid on the city of Luebeck in northern Germany.
March 29 
 1946 - The Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
March 29 
 1961 - The 23rd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives people living in Washington, DC the right to vote in Presidential elections.
March 29 
 1962 - President of Argentina Arturo Frondizi is overthrown in a military coup by the Argentine Armed Forces, after an 11-day constitutional crisis.
March 29 
 1974 – The Mariner 10 space probe passes by the planet Mercury, sending 2,000 photographs back to Earth.
March 29 
 1974 - Local farmers near Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese Emperor, in the 3rd century BC.
March 29 
 1990 - In Czechoslovakia the parliament fails to agree on the country's name after the fall of Communism.
March 29 
 1990 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 103 people.
March 29 
 1993 - Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, becoming the first woman to take this role in a Canadian province.
March 29 
 1998 - The Vasco da Gama Bridge, 17 kilometers long, is opened, crossing the Tagus in Lisbon, Portugal.
March 29 
 1999 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 103 people.
March 29 
 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
March 29 
 2002 - In response to the Passover massacre, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants.
March 29 
 2014 - The first Same-sex marriages in England and Wales take place, with the first ones in Scotland taking place on December 31 of the same year.
March 29 
 2015 - The Australia national cricket team wins the Cricket World Cup, defeating the New Zealand national cricket team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
March 29 
 2017 - British Prime Minister Theresa May triggers Article 50 of the European Union treaty, to start the process of Brexit (the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union).
January 15 
 69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
January 15 
 1541 - King Francis I of France gives Jean-Francois Roberval a commission to settle the Province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the Roman Catholic Faith.
January 15 
 1815 - War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
January 15 
 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected President of the Legislative Assembly.
January 15 
 1870 - A political cartoon (by Thomas Nast) for the first time uses a donkey as a symbol of the Democratic Party in the United States.
January 15 
 1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then-known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
January 15 
 1919 – German socialist activists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are tortured and executed by the Freikorps.
January 15 
 1933 - A 12-year-old girl is said to have experienced the first Marian Apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
January 15 
 1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company is completed in Toledo, Ohio, United States.
January 15 
 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republicans both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.