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Griet Op de Beeck
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Griet Op de Beeck is een Belgische auteur, columnist en therapeut.
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De Olympische Zomerspelen van de XXXIe Olympiade werden van 5 t/m 21 augustus 2016 gehouden in Rio de Janeiro in Brazili…
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Op de Olympische Zomerspelen 2016 in Rio de Janeiro zijn op meer dan 300 onderdelen gouden, zilveren en bronzen medaille…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2015
Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.
2013
Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.
2007
BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.
1986
A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
1971
Six people were killed during an escape attempt and riot at San Quentin State Prison in California; the subsequent trial of six inmates was the longest in state history at the time.
1963
South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas (one pictured) across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.
1945
American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.
1944
World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.
1942
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign.
1911
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.