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Handbal is een sport tussen twee ploegen van elk zeven spelers. De winnaar is het team dat de meeste doelpunten maakt door de bal in het doel van de tegenstander te werpen.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2017
Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in an Islamist terrorist attack in Turku, Finland.
2008
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.
1983
Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.
1966
Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan (helicopter pictured), but held them off for several hours until reinforcements arrived.
1964
East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
1948
Australia won the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, becoming the first Test cricket team to go undefeated in England, earning them the nickname "The Invincibles".
1945
World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
1940
Second World War: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, with both sides combined losing more aircraft on this day than at any other point during the campaign.
1937
A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire (pictured) in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres (7 km2) of old-growth forest and killing 15 firefighters.
1920
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.