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25 juli is de 206e dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 159 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Stolpersteine, ook bekend als struikelstenen, is een project van de Duitse kunstenaar Gunter Demnig. Het is een over geh…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2010
WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan in one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
2007
Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.
2001
Phoolan Devi, a serving Member of Parliament, was assassinated by shooting in New Delhi, India.
2000
Air France Flight 4590 (plane used pictured), a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109 passengers on board and four people on the ground.
1976
The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
1950
Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
1943
The Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini, who was arrested the same day by King Victor Emmanuel III and replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1898
Spanish–American War: After more than two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invaded Puerto Rico.
1893
The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
1788
Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40, one of his two extant symphonies in a minor key.