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Władziu Valentino Liberace, beter bekend onder zijn achter- en tevens artiestennaam Liberace, was een Amerikaans pianist en entertainer.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2007
Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.
1973
A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
1971
The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.
1947
Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.
1939
Leo Szilard (pictured) penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
1932
At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1923
Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
1920
Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.
1916
An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.
1914
The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.