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Pieter Menten
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Pieter Menten

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Pieter Nicolaas Menten was een Nederlands ondernemer, kunstverzamelaar en veroordeeld oorlogsmisdadiger. Hij groeide op in een welgestelde Rotterdamse familie en vestigde zich in Lwów, destijds deel van Polen, als zakenman. In 1941, nadat Duitsland Polen in 1939 had veroverd, werd hij lid van de SS. In deze tijd woonde…

Jan Terlouw
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Jan Terlouw
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Jan Cornelis Terlouw was een Nederlands politicus, schrijver en natuurkundige. Hij was onder meer lid van de Tweede Kame…

Sinterklaas
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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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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2019
Vivianne_Miedema
Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C., which broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match.
1991
1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum
A referendum held to ratify the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine passed with more than 92 percent of the vote.
1988
1988_Ordzhonikidze_bus_hijacking
Five armed men hijacked a bus carrying schoolchildren and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, Russia), and were later given an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and ransom for the release of the hostages.
1974
Boeing_727
Two Boeing 727s, TWA Flight 514 and Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashed in the eastern United States in unrelated circumstances, killing 95 people on board both aircraft.
1971
Croatian_Spring
A period of political and economic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Croatia came to an end as the League of Communists of Yugoslavia decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.
1966
The_Pit_(arena)
The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
1966
Gävle_goat
The first Gävle goat, a Swedish Yule goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground on New Year's Eve.
1959
Antarctic_Treaty_System
Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
1958
Flower_Drum_Song
The musical Flower Drum Song by Rodgers and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
1955
Rosa_Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.

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