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Mounir Samuel
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Mounir Samuel is een Nederlands politicoloog, publicist, Midden-Oostencorrespondent en auteur met een Egyptische achtergrond.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen1990
Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft (pictured), the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
1987
About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.
1978
The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.
1977
Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.
1972
Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungles of Guam, where he had been hiding since the end of World War II.
1968
Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
1961
A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated.
1913
Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1857
The University of Calcutta was established as the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent.
1848
James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush.