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Gianluigi Buffon
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Gianluigi Buffon

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Gianluigi Buffon is een voormalig Italiaans profvoetballer die dienst deed als doelman. Hij verruilde Juventus in juni 2021 voor Parma. Buffon was van 1997 tot en met 2017 international in het Italiaans voetbalelftal, waarvoor hij 176 interlands speelde. Hij stopte zijn carrière op 2 augustus 2023, op 45-jarige leeftij…

Zlatan Ibrahimović
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Zlatan Ibrahimović
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Zlatan Ibrahimović is een Zweeds voormalig voetballer. Hij speelde doorgaans als spits. Hij wordt doorgaans beschouwd al…

Brabançonne (volkslied)
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Brabançonne (volkslied)
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De Brabançonne is het nationaal volkslied van België. Het lied van de revolutionair Jenneval uit 1830 was oorspronkelijk…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2013
Petr_Nečas
Some of the closest advisors and collaborators of Czech prime minister Petr Nečas were arrested for corruption.
2011
June_2011_Christchurch_earthquake
A 6.0 Mw earthquake caused up to NZ$6 billion of additional damage to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier.
2007
2007_al-Askari_mosque_bombing
Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
1983
Pioneer_10
Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
1981
Marcus_Sarjeant
English teenager Marcus Sarjeant fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony.
1971
The_New_York_Times
The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1970
The_Long_and_Winding_Road
"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
1969
Preston_Smith_(governor)
Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Texas at Dallas.
1952
Catalina_affair
Soviet aircraft shot down a Swedish military plane carrying out signals-intelligence gathering operations, followed three days later by the shootdown of a second plane searching for the first one.
1944
World_War_II
Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied vehicles in less than 15 minutes.

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