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12 augustus is de 224ste dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 141 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Pretty Little Liars is een Amerikaanse tienerdrama/mysterie-televisieserie van Freeform. De serie is gebaseerd op de gel…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2016
The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
2000
Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing 118 people.
1990
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed Sue (pictured).
1985
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (aircraft involved pictured) crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board, including singer Kyu Sakamoto, in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
1969
The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.
1952
Thirteen Jewish poets were executed in Moscow for espionage based on false confessions.
1945
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was released to the public days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1944
World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees and burned their bodies.
1914
World War I: Belgian troops won a victory at the Battle of Halen, but were ultimately unable to stop the German invasion of Belgium.
1883
The last known quagga (example pictured), a subspecies of the plains zebra, died at Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam.