the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_embeddings huggingface dataset:
2021 
 A British judge blocks the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States and Mexico offers him political asylum.
2021 
 Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra is re-elected to a second term, winning 54% of the vote.
2021 
 Protesters supporting outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump storm inside the United States Capitol while congress was certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
2021 
 The Democratic Party officially gains control of the United States Senate, now controlling both chambers of the United States Congress.
2021 
 2019–20 Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong police arrest over 50 democracy activists under the national security law.
2021 
 January 7 – 2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis: Iraq issues an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump over the drone strike killing of Qasem Soleimani.
2021 
 January 9 – Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 is declared missing after the plane dropped 10,000 ft within a minute north of Jakarta, Indonesia.
2021 
 January 10 – Kim Jong-un is elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, taking the title from his late father Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
2021 
 January 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 90 million worldwide.
2021 
 In Lyon, France, the first transplant of both arms and shoulders is performed on an Icelandic patient at the Édouard Herriot Hospital.
2021 
 U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time following the storming of the United States Capitol.
2021 
 Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas resigns following a criminal investigation into the Estonian Centre Party.
2021 
 January 14 – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is re-elected winning 58.64% of the vote, defeating Bobi Wine.
2021 
 January 20 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States with Kamala Harris as the 49th Vice President of the United States.
2021 
 January 21 – Governor General of Canada Julie Payette announced her resignation following allegations of a "toxic workplace" environment.
2021 
 January 23 – In Russia, police arrest more than 3,000 people who were protesting in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was also arrested.
2021 
 January 24 – President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is re-elected in a landslide victory winning 60.7% of the vote.
2021 
 January 25 – Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte resigned following a loss of confidence from the coalition government that originally backed him in 2018.
2021 
 Kaja Kallas becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Estonia following a coalition government, becoming Estonia's first female prime minister.
2021 
 The Polish Constitutional Tribunal rules that abortion for fetal defects is unconstitutional and resulting in a near-total ban of the practice in Poland.
2021 
 GameStop short squeeze: Investment funds report major losses after GME stock prices raised 900 times their record low.
2021 
 January 28 – GameStop short squeeze: American financial services company Robinhood restricts the trade of stocks of several companies, including GameStop, causing outrage online.
2021 
 January 31 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam for a third five-year term of top leader in Vietnam.
2021 
 A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule with Min Aung Hlaing as state leader.
2021 
 February 2 – Jeff Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon and names AWS CEO Andy Jassy as his replacement.
2021 
 February 4 – U.S. President Joe Biden announces that the United States will stop providing weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for use in the Yemeni Civil War.
2021 
 In American football, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs with a 31 to 9 point margin at Super Bowl LV.
2021 
 COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHO-China investigation into the source of the outbreak is concluded with experts saying a Wuhan laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in bats being a more likely origin.
2021 
 The United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft becomes the first Arabian mission to successfully enter orbit around Mars.
2021 
 February 10 – China's Tianwen-1 is launched to Mars to learn about the planet's environmental quality.
2021 
 February 11 – In Fort Worth, Texas, United States, at least nine people were killed in an accident involving 133 vehicles on a highway; affected by the weather conditions left by a snowstorm system.
2021 
 February 12 – Former Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori, who was picked in 2014 to be in charge of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, resigned from the Olympic committee after sexist comments he made.
2021 
 A winter storm in North America begins which would cause 70 deaths and several million others without clean water or power.
2021 
 Former U.S. President Donald Trump is found not-guilty by the United States Senate for causing the storming of the United States Capitol during his second impeachment trial.
2021 
 Mario Draghi is appointed as the Prime Minister of Italy, a month after the resignation of Giuseppe Conte due to a failed coalition government.
2021 
 February 14 – Former President of Argentina Carlos Menem, who supported Peronist ideas, dies at aged 90.
2021 
 February 15 – Nigerian-American economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is picked as the first woman and first African to be Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
2021 
 February 17 – 27 students and staff members at a school in Nigeria's Niger State are kidnapped by armed gunmen, killing one student.
2021 
 Porfirije becomes the 46th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, replacing Irinej who died of COVID-19 in November 2020.
2021 
 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak: 7 people test positive for H5N8 bird flu at a poultry farm in southern Russia, making them the first human cases.
2021 
 February 21 – Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic win the Women's and Men's Singles respectively at the Australian Open.
2021 
 February 22 – COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to pass half a million deaths from the virus.
2021 
 February 24 – COVID-19 pandemic: Ghana becomes the first country to receive vaccines through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.
2021 
 The Armenian military calls for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign and Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état.
2021 
 February 26 – More than 300 schoolgirls are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Nigeria's Zamfara State.
2021 
 March 1 – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is found guilty of corruption and sentenced to three years in prison.
2021 
 March 2 – Microsoft acknowledges a series of data breaches and cyberattacks, affecting about 250,000 servers globally.
2021 
 March 3 – The Russo-Ukrainian crisis begins as Russia supported rebel groups near Ukraine to "destruct" the country.
2021 
 March 5 – Moldova becomes the first country in Europe to receive coronavirus vaccines through COVAX.
2021 
 March 6 – Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq making it the first meeting between a pope and a grand ayatollah.
2021 
 Prime Minister of Ivory Coast Hamed Bakayoko dies from cancer after being hospitalized with COVID-19, aged 56.
2021 
 In the United States, the murder trial of the four police officers involved in the killing of George Floyd begins in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2021 
 March 11 – 30 students and several staff members are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
2021 
 March 13 – Former interim Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez is arrested on charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy over her actions during the 2019 coup of then-President Evo Morales.
2021 
 March 16 – A mass shooting kills eight people in Atlanta, Georgia, with most of the victims being Asian American women.
2021 
 The attack is being called a hate crime against Asian-Americans mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 
 Mathematicians Avi Wigderson of Hungary and László Lovász of Israel both win the Abel Prize for their work in complexity theory and graph theory.
2021 
 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) wins the general elections, with liberal parties gaining seats.
2021 
 Vice President Samia Suluhu replaces him the following day, becoming the country's first female president.
2021 
 In Australia, floods in New South Wales cause the evacuation of over 18,000 people and three killed.
2021 
 March 20 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by a presidential decree, becoming the first country to withdraw from it.
2021 
 A fire breaks out at a Rohingya refugee camp near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, killing 15 people and injuring over 500 people.
2021 
 The Israeli general elections take place, the fourth Knesset election in two years, with Likud winning the most seats.
2021 
 Ever Given, one of the largest container ships in the world, loses control and causes a major blockage in the Suez Canal causing a large disruption of global trade.
2021 
 March 24 – Over twenty people are killed and 35,000 flee when Islamist rebels take the city of Palma in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique.
2021 
 March 25 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administrated worldwide exceeds 500 million.
2021 
 March 28 – Former President of Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka dies of problems caused by influenza in Antananarivo, aged 84.
2021 
 March 31 – Alfred Aho of Canada and Jeffrey Ullman of the United States win the Turing Award for their work in programming language compilers.
2021 
 Russia warns NATO against sending any troops to aid Ukraine, amid reports of a large Russian military build-up on its borders.
2021 
 In Bulgaria, the conservative-populist GERB party led by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov wins the majority of seats in the parliamentary elections.
2021 
 Vjosa Osmani is elected the fifth President of Kosovo by the Assembly of Kosovo, becoming the second woman to hold this position.
2021 
 Naomi Mataʻafa is elected the 7th and first female Prime Minister of Samoa, after defeating the incumbent Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi.
2021 
 La Soufrière, a Caribbean volcano in Saint Vincent, erupts which forced over 20,000 people to evacuate.
2021 
 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the royal consort of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at Windsor Castle at aged 99.
2021 
 April 10 – Banker and former Governor of Guayas Guillermo Lasso is elected the 47th President of Ecuador, defeating socialist candidate Andrés Arauz.
2021 
 April 11 – Iran accuses Israel of "nuclear terrorism" and vows revenge, after a large explosion destroys the internal power system of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, a nuclear power plant.
2021 
 April 13 – Japan's government approves the dumping of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years, with full support of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
2021 
 April 15 – Scientists announce they successfully injected human stem cells into the embryos of monkeys, creating chimera-embryos.
2021 
 Twelve football clubs, including the "big six" from the Premier League and leading clubs from the Serie A and La Liga, agree to join a new breakaway European Super League, despite condemnation from UEFA, FIFA and politicians including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
2021 
 NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, part of the Mars 2020 mission, performs the first powered flight on another planet in history.
2021 
 Raúl Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, ending more than 62 years of rule by the Castro brothers in Cuba.
2021 
 The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment on the Perseverance rover creates oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere.
2021 
 April 21 – COVID-19 pandemic: With global case numbers approaching a second peak, India reports 315,000 infections within 24 hours, the highest one-day tally recorded anywhere in the world to date.
2021 
 April 22 – World leaders mark Earth Day by hosting a virtual summit on climate change hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, during which more targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions are proposed, including a 50% cut by 2030 for the United States.
2021 
 Following an international search and rescue effort, the Indonesian navy reports the sinking of KRI Nanggala with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since 2003.
2021 
 A hospital fire in Baghdad, where COVID-19 patients were being treated during the pandemic in Iraq, kills 82 people with 110 people injured.
2021 
 Edi Rama is re-elected Prime Minister of Albania with his Socialist Party winning a narrow majority of 74 seats.
2021 
 Nomadland wins the Academy Award for Best Picture with its director (Chloé Zhao) and leading actress (Frances McDormand) winning Best Director and Best Actress respectively.
2021 
 Youn Yuh-jung, Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Kaluuya also won the awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.
2021 
 The European Union approves of a major trade agreement with the United Kingdom following their exit from the European Union.
2021 
 After members of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) issue a motion of no confidence, DUP Leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster announced her resignation effective the following month.
2021 
 Clashes on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border leave at least 46 people dead and 30,000 civilians displaced.
2021 
 April 29 – China launches the Tianhe space station module, the first module in the upcoming Tiangong space station.
2021 
 April 30 – In Israel, at least 45 people are crushed to death with over 150 injured at a religious festival on Mount Meron.
2021 
 In horse racing, Medina Spirit wins the Kentucky Derby, the record seventh victory for trainer Bob Baffert.
2021 
 The SpaceX Crew-1 mission ends, returning four crewmembers of Expedition 64 and 65 to Earth from the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Resilience.
2021 
 Nationwide protests in Colombia against proposed tax increases to fund a basic income program result in at least six dead.
2021 
 May 5 – SpaceX successfully flies, lands, and recovers a Starship prototype for the first time, after four unsuccessful previous attempts.
2021 
 Former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed is injured in a car bombing which has been described as an attempted assassination.
2021 
 In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party win the majority of local elections, gaining some seats from the Labour Party.
2021 
 Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party is re-elected Mayor of London winning 55% of the vote against Conservative Shaun Bailey.
2021 
 Seven students and two adults are killed, and at least 21 more people are wounded, in a mass shooting at a school in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.
2021 
 The China National Space Administration lands its Zhurong rover on Mars, making China the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the planet and only the second to land a rover.
2021 
 On the same day, the country also reported that 4,329 deaths from COVID-19, the highest number of COVID-related deaths in a single-day.
2021 
 Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants continues to escalate, as the death toll exceeds 150.
2021 
 A high-rise office in Gaza occupied by Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other media outlets is destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
2021 
 May 17 – Darwin's Arch, a rock formation in the Galápagos Islands, collapses because of natural erosion.
2021 
 May 18–22 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 
 May 20 – After international pressure and nearly 250 deaths, Israel agrees a ceasefire deal to end the conflict with Gaza militants, effective the next day at 2:00 AM local time.
2021 
 May 22 – In Samoa, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi refuses to acknowledge his defeat and locks Naomi Mataʻafa from the Legislative Assembly causing a constitutional crisis.
2021 
 Phil Mickelson wins the PGA Championship, becoming the oldest major championship winner in golf history at aged 50.
2021 
 In Peru, a militant communist group kills 18 people as protest against the presidential candidacy of conservative Keiko Fujimori just two weeks before the general election run-off.
2021 
 In Belarus, journalist and opposition activist Roman Protasevich is arrested after his Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land at Minsk National Airport under the orders of President Alexander Lukashenko.
2021 
 May 24 – Members of the Malian Armed Forces captured and arrest President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane in a coup d'état.
2021 
 Bashar al-Assad is re-elected President of Syria, winning 95% of the vote even though the votes cast for Assad was higher than the total population of Syria.
2021 
 The second-shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs, with totality lasting for 14 minutes.
2021 
 The eclipse was visible over the Pacific Ocean, Oceania, Antarctica and parts of Asia and the Americas.
2021 
 Shell becomes the first company to be legally mandated to cut its carbon emissions and follow the Paris climate accord, following a landmark court ruling in the Netherlands.
2021 
 May 27 – Poul Schlüter, Denmark's Prime Minister for over a decade and introduced the krone to the European Union, dies at aged 92.
2021 
 In Canada, a mass grave with the remains of 215 children are found on the grounds of a former Indian residential school in British Columbia.
2021 
 Former Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog is elected as the 11th President of Israel defeating educator Miriam Peretz.
2021 
 The X-Press Pearl sinks near Colombo, Sri Lanka leaking many tons of nitric acid and oil into the Indian Ocean, causing the country's worst marine ecological disaster.
2021 
 The first daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is born in the United States in Santa Barbara, California.
2021 
 French writer David Diop wins the 2021 International Booker Prize for his novel At Night All Blood Is Black.
2021 
 June 3 – Sir Anerood Jugnauth, who was Mauritius's Prime Minister for a total of twenty-years and its President for a decade, dies at aged 91.
2021 
 Twitter's operations in Nigeria would be "suspended" permanently, with Nigeria arguing that the company causes activities that "are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.
2021 
 This comes after the company deleted tweets by President Muhammadu Buhari who was sending messages threatening violence.
2021 
 June 5 – The G7 agrees on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% meant to stop world's richest people from not paying taxes.
2021 
 In Canada, four Muslims are killed after being attacked by a truck in London, Ontario in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as a "terrorist attack" caused by Islamophobia.
2021 
 The United States wins the first edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, defeating Mexico in the final by a scoreline of 3–2 after overtime.
2021 
 Former Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh is elected the 6th President of Mongolia, winning 72% of the vote.
2021 
 June 10 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from parts of the Northeast United States, Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, and the Russian Far East.
2021 
 Rural farmer and teacher Pedro Castillo is elected the 63rd President of Peru, defeating conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.
2021 
 The New York Times wins the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 
 World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit, hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the corporate taxation.
2021 
 The UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2021 Copa América begins, after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 
 June 13 – Naftali Bennett becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Israel following a coalition agreement, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's twelve-year tenure as prime minister.
2021 
 COVID-19 pandemic: Novavax announces 90.4% overall efficacy in its Phase 3 United States and Mexico trial.
2021 
 June 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: CureVac announces an overall efficacy of just 47% of their vaccine based on an analysis of Phase III clinical trial.
2021 
 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is re-elected after his party, Civil Contract, wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly.
2021 
 Hours after Spain approved of his extradition to the United States for tax crimes, computer programming entrepreneur John McAfee commits suicide in his prison cell.
2021 
 Former President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III, who improved the country's economy, dies at aged 61.
2021 
 In the United States, a condominium in Miami, Florida collapses killing 97 people with 8 people reported missing.
2021 
 Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper, is forced to shutdown for violating a national security law in Hong Kong.
2021 
 Former Prime Minister of South Vietnam General Trần Thiện Khiêm, who helped plan and execute coup that led to the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, dies at aged 95.
2021 
 751 unmarked graves are found near the former site of an indigenous peoples residential school in Saskatchewan, Canada.
2021 
 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls on Pope Francis to apologize for the Catholic church run boarding schools.
2021 
 Former police officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to over 22 years for the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2021 
 June 28 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Force seizes the Tigrayan capital Mekele shortly after the Ethiopian government declares a ceasefire.
2021 
 Former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma is sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
2021 
 The United Nations announce that recent fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has resulted in a famine that is now affecting more than 400,000 people.
2021 
 Over 130 wildfires, caused by lightning strikes, burn through Western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave in North America.
2021 
 More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers flee to neighboring Tajikistan after clashing with Taliban militants.
2021 
 Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed is re-elected Prime Minister of Ethiopia in a landslide victory.
2021 
 Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 mission launches with six people, including Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson.
2021 
 Ashleigh Barty and Novak Djokovic win the respective women's and men's singles tournaments at Wimbledon.
2021 
 In Cuba, a large anti-government protests break-out because of food and medicine shortages caused by the government's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 
 July 12 – Severe floods across Western Europe leave at least 90 people dead and 1,300 others missing.
2021 
 Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes the 43th Prime Minister of Nepal after court order found that KP Sharma Oli tenure as prime minister was against the law.
2021 
 Over 70 people are killed during riots in South Africa following the arrest of former South African president Jacob Zuma in connection to a corrupt arms deal.
2021 
 July 14 – Former President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, who led the country's polio eradication program dies at aged 80.
2021 
 July 15 – Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries dies after being shot multiple times in Amsterdam, aged 64.
2021 
 Serial killer Michael Gargiulo, also known as the "Hollywood Ripper", is sentenced to death for two murders.
2021 
 Floods and landslides caused 56 deaths in Henan, China and leaving over 2 million evacuated or homeless.
2021 
 July 18 – A report found that human rights activists, journalists and lawyers around the world have been targeted with a phone malware sold to authoritarian governments by an Israeli surveillance firm.
2021 
 July 19 – Blue Origin successfully conducts its first human test flight, with a reusable New Shepard rocket delivering four crew members into space – founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen (the youngest person to ever go into space), and 82-year-old Wally Funk (the oldest person to go into space).