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19 februari is de 50ste dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 315 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Daan Roosegaarde is een Nederlandse kunstenaar en de oprichter van Studio Roosegaarde, dat projecten ontwikkelt die tech…
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12 Years a Slave is een Amerikaanse historisch dramafilm geregisseerd door Steve McQueen en gebaseerd op de autobiografi…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2012
Mexican drug war: Forty-four inmates died in a prison riot in Apodaca, Mexico, between members of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.
2011
Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first exhibited in Singapore.
2006
A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva Rosita, Mexico, trapped and killed 65 miners.
1965
Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
1963
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, a non-fiction book credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States, was first published.
1948
The Southeast Asian Youth Conference, which is believed to have inspired armed communist rebellions in different Asian countries, opened in Calcutta, India.
1942
World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation of over 112,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1942
Second World War: In the largest attack mounted by a foreign power against Australia, more than 240 Japanese aircraft bombed the city of Darwin (pictured).
1942
A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion.
1937
Italian forces began a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians following an attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani, the viceroy of Italian East Africa, in Addis Ababa.