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26 september is de 269ste dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 96 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was een beruchte Colombiaanse drugsbaron, die een van de rijkste mensen ter wereld werd doo…
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Stevie Wonder, geboren als Stevland Hardaway Judkins of Stevland Hardaway Morris, is een Amerikaans zanger, componist en…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2016
The Ecnomiohyla rabborum became extinct when the last known surviving member died in captivity.
2014
Forty-three students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Iguala, Mexico, were kidnapped and probably later killed.
2010
Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
2008
Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy (pictured) flew a wingpack powered by jet engines across the English Channel.
1983
Cold War: Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a potential nuclear war by identifying as a false alarm signals that appeared to indicate an impending U.S. missile attack.
1983
The racing yacht Australia II, captained by John Bertrand, won the America's Cup and ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the trophy.
1968
The Beatles completed the recording of John Lennon's song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", regarded by all the band members as their favourite on the album The Beatles.
1959
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War formally ended with the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from the People's Republic of Kampuchea, a client state it had implemented to overthrow Democratic Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge.
1959
Japan was struck by Typhoon Vera, the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country, causing damage in excess of US$261 million and more than 5,000 deaths.
1944
World War II: The Soviet Red Army completed the Tallinn offensive, driving German forces out of Estonia.