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Donald John Trump is een Amerikaanse zakenman en politicus. Hij is sinds 20 januari 2025 de 47e president van de Verenigde Staten namens de Republikeinse Partij. Eerder was hij van 20 januari 2017 tot en met 20 januari 2021 de 45e president.

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15 november is de 319de dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 46 dagen tot het einde van het j…

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Sinterklaas is de hoofdpersoon van het eeuwenoude sinterklaasfeest. De dag 6 december gaat door als zijn verjaardag. Het…

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10 gebeurtenissen
2012
Xi_Jinping
Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding as the paramount leader of China.
2000
Edoardo_Agnelli
Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.
1988
Buran_(spacecraft)
The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.
1959
Clutter_family_murders
Two men murdered a family in Holcomb, Kansas; the events became the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, a pioneering work of the true crime genre.
1943
The_Holocaust
The Holocaust: In the Romani Holocaust, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler ordered that the Romani were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1922
1922_Guayaquil_general_strike
During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.
1922
Fountain_of_Time
Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1908
Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State
As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
1889
Pedro_II_of_Brazil
Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca (pictured), while the country was proclaimed a republic.
1864
American_Civil_War
American Civil War: Union army general William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) began his March to the Sea, inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.

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