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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2009
As part of their investigation into an athletic scandal at Florida State University, the National Collegiate Athletic Association released a report alleging that 61 student athletes had engaged in academic fraud.
2000
The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened.
1988
The Troubles: In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service killed three volunteers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.
1987
The ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 people on board.
1964
In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali (pictured).
1953
Following Joseph Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov succeeded him as Premier of the Soviet Union.
1945
Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front became the first prime minister of the Communist Party-dominated government of Romania.
1943
World War II: National Liberation Front forces defeated Italian occupiers in the Battle of Fardykambos, a major sign of the Greek resistance's growth.
1930
Organized by the Communist International, hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world marched to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression.
1913
First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.