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Blue Monday (dag)

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Blue Monday ('deprimaandag') is een als marketingstunt bedachte naam voor de zogenaamd deprimerendste dag van het jaar. Het valt meestal op de derde maandag van januari of op de maandag van de laatste volle week van die maand. Dat dit de deprimerendste dag van het jaar zou zijn is niet op wetenschappelijke gronden geba…

Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin
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Janis Lyn Joplin was een Amerikaans zangeres.

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18 januari
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18 januari is de 18e dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 347 dagen tot het einde van het jaa…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2019
Tlahuelilpan_pipeline_explosion
An oil pipeline explosion killed 137 people in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
1990
Sting_operation
In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
1983
International_Olympic_Committee
Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
1983
Malayan_Communist_Party
Singaporean communist activist Tan Chay Wa was executed, leading to a much-publicised trial of his brother for engraving "subversive" material on the gravestone.
1969
1968–1969_Japanese_university_protests
In response to months of nationwide student protests, thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo.
1958
Willie_O'Ree
Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.
1958
Lumbee
Members of the Lumbee tribe arrived to protest at a Ku Klux Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, which turned into an armed confrontation between the two groups (pictured).
1956
Shia_Islam
Iranian Shia cleric Navvab Safavi, founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.
1951
United_Nations_Memorial_Cemetery
Construction of the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured) began in Busan, South Korea.
1943
World_War_II
World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege of the city.

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