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Carnaval is van oorsprong een gekerstend heidens volksfeest. Het valt binnen de christelijke traditie op de zondag, maandag en dinsdag direct voorafgaand aan de vastentijd van 40 dagen. In Nederland wordt het van oorsprong alleen door katholieken gevierd, voornamelijk in het zuiden en delen van het oosten. Ook in Belgi…

Leicester City FC
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Leicester City FC
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Leicester City FC is een Engelse voetbalclub, opgericht in 1884 en spelend in de EFL Championship. De club speelt zijn t…

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is een Amerikaans acteur, regisseur en voormalig kindster. Hij werd in 2010 genomineerd voo…

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10 gebeurtenissen
1987
Mary_Gaudron
Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.
1976
Lockheed_Corporation
Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1958
Manchester_United_F.C.
The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football team crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 8 players and 23 people in total (news reel featured).
1951
Woodbridge_train_derailment
A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
1922
Washington_Naval_Treaty
Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty (pictured), agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race.
1919
World_War_I
World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.
1918
Conscientious_objector
Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.
1865
Municipalities_of_Finland
Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes.
1862
Union_(American_Civil_War)
Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
1820
American_Colonization_Society
The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.

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