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31 augustus is de 243ste dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 122 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was een beruchte Colombiaanse drugsbaron, die een van de rijkste mensen ter wereld werd doo…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2019
A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.
2010
The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police drama in British television history, was broadcast.
2002
Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.
1997
Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.
1969
On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.
1959
A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu (pictured), younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
1942
The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.
1941
World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.
1940
Second World War: Two Royal navy destroyers were lost to mines and two other vessels damaged off Texel, Netherlands, killing around 300 men.
1939
Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany, creating an excuse to invade Poland the next day.