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6 oktober is de 279ste dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 86 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Oranje is een streekdorp in de gemeente Midden-Drenthe, in de Nederlandse provincie Drenthe. Het is gelegen aan het Oran…
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Andy van der Meijde, is een voormalig Nederlands profvoetballer en televisiepersoonlijkheid die voornamelijk rechtsbuite…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2008
The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt (pictured) – the second largest impact crater on the planet.
2002
Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden.
2000
Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned.
1998
Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming, U.S., dying six days later.
1995
Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi (depicted) as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star.
1989
About 200 members of the San Francisco Police Department instigated a police riot in the Castro following a peaceful protest held by the political group ACT UP.
1985
Police constable Keith Blakelock was killed during rioting in the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, London.
1981
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (pictured) was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
1976
Two bombs placed by the CIA-linked Cuban dissident group Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations exploded on Cubana Flight 455, killing all 73 people aboard.
1973
The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictured) to attack occupying Israeli forces at the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula, beginning the Yom Kippur War.