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Date
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Event - Location
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# of People
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Participants
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August 12, 30 BC
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Royal Death - Alexandria, Egypt
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3
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Cleopatra VII | Charmion | Iras
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c. 30-33 AD
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The Last Supper - Jerusalem
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13
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Jesus | Simon Peter | Andrew | James "son of Zebedee" | John | Philip | Bartholomew | Thomas | Matthew | James "son of Alphaeus" | Thaddaeus | Simon | Judas Iscariot
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May 20, 1604
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Meeting of The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators - London, England
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5
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Guy Fawkes | Robert Catesby | Thomas Wintour | Thomas Percy | John Wright
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November 8, 1895
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Discovery of X-rays - Würzburg, Germany
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1
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Wilhelm Röntgen
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April 6, 1909
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First Visit to the North Pole (Disputed)
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6
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Robert Peary | Matthew Henson | Ootah | Egingwah | Seegloo | Ooqueah
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December 14, 1911
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First Visit to the South Pole
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5
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Roald Amundsen | Olav Bjaaland | Helmeer Hanssen | Sverre Hassel | Oscar Wisting
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June 28, 1914
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Assassination that Precipitated WW I - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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6
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Duchess Sophie of Hohenberg | Oskar Potiorek | Lieutenant Colonel Count Franz von Harrach | Leopold Lojka | Gavrilo Princip
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April-May 1916
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Lifeboat Journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island - Southern Ocean
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6
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Ernest Shackleton | Frank Worsley | Tom Crean | John Vincent | Timothy McCarthy | Harry McNish
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July 17, 1918
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Regicide/Execution - Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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20
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Tsar Nicholas II Romanov | Alexandra Romanov | Olga Romanov | Tatiana Romanov | Maria Romanov | Anastasia Romanov | Alexei Romanov | Dr. Eugene Botkin | Anna Demidova | Alexei Trupp | Ivan Kharitonov | Yakov Yurovsky | Grigory Nikulin | Mikhail Medvedev | Peter Eemakov | Stepan Vaganov | Alexei Kabanov | Pavel Medvedev | V.N. Neterbin | Y.M. Tselms
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November 1922
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Burial Chamber of King Tutankhamun - Valley of the Kings, Egypt
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3
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Howard Carter | Lord Carnarvon | Lady Evelyn Herbert
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October 24-29, 1927
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The Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics - Brussels, Belgium
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29
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Albert Einstein | Niels Bohr | Werner Heisenberg | Erwin Schrodinger | Paul Dirac | Max Planck | Marie Curie | Auguste Piccard | Emile Henriot | Paul Ehrenfest | Edouard Herzen | Theophile De Donder | Jules-Emile Verschaffelt | Wolfgang Pauli | Ralph Fowler | Leon Brillouin | Peter Debye | Martin Knudsen | William Bragg | Hans Kramers | Arthur Compton | Louis Raymond | Max Born | Irving Langmuir | Hendrik Lorentz | Paul Langevin | Charles-Eugene Guye | Charles Wilson | Owen Richardson
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July 2, 1937
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Lockheed Electra Airplane - Near Howland Island, Pacific Ocean
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2
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Amelia Earhart | Fred Noonan
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February 4-11, 1945
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The Yalta Conference - Yalta, Soviet Union
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5
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | Winston Churchill | Joseph Stalin | Anthony Edin | Vyacheslav Molotov
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February 28, 1953
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Discovery of DNA Double-Helix - Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
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2
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James Watson | Francis Crick
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May 29, 1953
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First Successful Ascent of Mount Everest - Nepal/Tibet
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2
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Edmund Hillary | Tenzing Norgay
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May 6, 1954
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Breaking of the Four-Minute Mile - Iffley Road Track, Oxford, England
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8
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Roger Bannister | Christopher Chataway | Chris Brasher | Tom Hulatt | Alan Gordon | George Dole | Norris McWhirter | Franz Stampfl
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July 20, 1969 - December 14, 1972
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On the Moon
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12
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Neil Armstrong | Buzz Aldrin | Pete Conrad | Alan Bean | Alan Shepard | Edgar Mitchell | David Scott | James Irwin | John Young | Charles Duke | Gene Cernan | Harrison Schmitt
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September 13, 1982
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Fatal Car Accident - Cap-d'Ail, near La Turbie, France
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2
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Grace Kelly | Stephanie Marie Grimaldi
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July 22, 1992
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"Greatest Game Nobody Saw" - U.S. Olympic Dream Team Scrimmage - Monte Carlo, Monaco
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10
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Michael Jordan | Magic Johnson | Scottie Pippen | Larry Bird | Karl Malone | Patrick Ewing |Christian Laettner | Chris Mullen | Charles Barkley | David Robinson.
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August 31, 1997
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Fatal Car Accident - Pont de L'Alma Tunnel, Paris, France
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4
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Diana, Princess of Wales | Dodi Fayed | Henri Paul | Trevor Rees-Jones
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