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Een gros is 12 dozijn, oftewel 12 x 12 = 144 stuks. Anders gezegd: een gros is een dozijn dozijnen.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2004
Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, considered one of the best video games ever made, in North America.
2001
President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law, significantly expanding the authority of United States law enforcement agencies.
2000
Following protests against military leader Robert Guéï, Laurent Gbagbo (pictured) became the president of Ivory Coast.
1994
Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, settling relations between the two countries and pledging that neither would allow its territory to become a staging ground for military strikes by a third country.
1977
Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease.
1955
Ngô Đình Diệm proclaimed himself president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam after defeating former emperor Bảo Đại in a fraudulent referendum supervised by his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
1921
The Chicago Theatre (pictured), the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opened.
1906
The Illinois Memorial, honoring Union army soldiers from Illinois who fought at the Siege of Vicksburg, was dedicated at Vicksburg National Military Park.
1905
The Saint Petersburg Soviet held its first meeting, becoming the first elected body in Russia to represent workers.
1902
A group of Russian explorers led by Baron von Toll left their camp on Bennett Island and disappeared without a trace.