Most Viewed Events on Wikipedia

Can you name the events that have the most page views on Wikipedia? The year/s they occurred are given as a hint.

All view counts (unless it has a asterisk) are of January 2022

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Year/s	Event	Views
1939 - 1945	World War II	136 M
1914 - 1918	World War I	113 M
2020 -	COVID-19 pandemic	83 M
2001	September 11 attacks	81 M
1986	Chernobyl disaster	80 M
1955 - 1975	Vietnam War	77 M
1912	Titanic	76 M
1861 - 1865	American Civil War	67 M
2018	2018 FIFA World Cup	59 M
1945	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	51 M
1945 - 1989	Cold War	46 M
1346 - 1353	Black Death	46 M
1941 - 1945	The Holocaust	45 M
1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor	44 M
2022 -	2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	43 M *
1950 - 1953	Korean War	42 M
2020	2020 United States presidential election	41 M
2014	2014 FIFA World Cup	40 M
1999	Columbine High School massacre	39 M
1929 - 1939	Great Depression	37 M
1789 - 1799	French Revolution	37 M
2020	2020 Summer Olympics	35 M
~ 1760 - 1840	Industrial Revolution	33 M
2016	2016 Summer Olympics	33 M
2005	Hurricane Katrina	33 M
2010	2010 FIFA World Cup	32 M
1775 - 1783	American Revolutionary War	31 M
2020	UEFA Euro 2020	30 M
2012	2012 Summer Olympics	30 M
2016	2016 United States presidential election	30 M
2011 -	Syrian civil war	29 M
1944	Normandy landings	29 M
1918 - 1920	Spanish flu	28 M
~ 13 billion BCE	Big Bang	28 M