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20 januari is de 20e dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 345 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Vanuatu, officieel de Republiek Vanuatu, is een eilandengroep in Oceanië die sinds 30 juli 1980 een onafhankelijk land i…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2018
A group of Taliban gunmen attacked and took hostages at the Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left at least 21 people dead.
2009
During a national financial crisis, thousands of people protested (pictured) at the Icelandic parliament in Reykjavík.
2009
In Washington, D.C., Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first African-American president of the United States.
1990
The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.
1969
Bengali student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman was shot and killed by East Pakistani police, an event that led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1968
The Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins in what became known as the "Game of the Century" (pictured), ending the Bruins' 47-game winning streak and establishing college basketball as a sports commodity on American television.
1945
World War II: In an operation that took nearly two months to complete, Germany began the evacuation of at least 1.8 million people from East Prussia in anticipation of the advancing Soviet Red Army.
1942
The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin to discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
1843
Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, became the de facto first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil.
1726
J. S. Bach led the first performance of his cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen on the second Sunday after the Epiphany.