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Bernardus Andreas (Dries) Riphagen was in de jaren 1930 een Amsterdamse crimineel. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog collaboreerde hij met de Duitse bezettingsmacht.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2011
Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a public meeting held by U.S. representative Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and injuring twelve others.
2010
Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, killing three people.
1991
Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson, Texas, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".
1981
In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
1977
Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people.
1972
Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure.
1956
Five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were killed by the Huaorani in the rainforest of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1939
The New Deal for Aborigines was formally announced by the Australian government, providing for full civil rights for Indigenous Australians in exchange for cultural assimilation.
1936
Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.
1918
U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.