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Figure California revolutionary

Steve Jobs

1955 CE – 2011 CE · 56 years

The story of an adopted kid from Mountain View who built the most valuable company on earth, was fired from his own creation, and returned to reinvent the personal computer, the phone, and the way the world listens to music.

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Wikipedia

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Steve Jobs on Wikipedia.

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Running at the same time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Figure · Britain

Winston Churchill

1874 CE – 1965 CE

Polity

Uzbekistan

Founded 1991 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict

Tajik Civil War

1992 CE – 1997 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Figure · Switzerland

Carl Jung

1875 CE – 1961 CE

Polity

Tajikistan

Founded 1991 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark

Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1955 CE and 2011 CE.

1992 CE Tajik Civil War 1955 CE Vietnam War 1955 CE First Sudanese Civil War 1956 CE Suez Crisis 1956 CE Hungarian Revolution 1958 CE Cathedral of Brasília

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Darvaza Gas Crater Landmark · Middle East 1971 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency Conflict · South Asia 1967 CE – 2026 CE China–Europe Railway (Belt and Road) Trade route · East Asia 2011 CE Cathedral of Brasília Landmark · Americas 1958 CE – still standing Yugoslavia Polity · Europe 1918 CE – 1992 CE
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