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4 februari is de 35ste dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 330 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Top Reads
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Mannenharten is een Nederlandse film uit 2013. Deze werd geregisseerd door Mark de Cloe. De film is een remake van de Du…
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Carnaval is van oorsprong een gekerstend heidens volksfeest. Het valt binnen de christelijke traditie op de zondag, maan…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2015
Shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, the crew of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 shut down the wrong engine in response to a flameout, leading to a crash that resulted in 43 deaths.
2008
The London low emission zone (sign pictured), charging certain diesel-powered commercial vehicles to enter Greater London, came into operation.
1999
Four plain-clothes New York City police officers shot and killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, prompting outrage both in and outside the city.
1999
The Philippine-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history.
1998
An earthquake registering 5.9 MW struck northern Afghanistan, triggering landslides that killed over 2,300 people and destroyed around 15,000 homes.
1974
American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined.
1974
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a motor coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members, killing twelve people.
1969
Yasser Arafat (pictured) was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1945
World War II: American forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest Japanese-run internment camp for enemy civilians in the Philippines.
1899
The Philippine–American War began when an American soldier, under orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired on a Filipino soldier in Manila.