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Adèle Bloemendaal
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Adèle Bloemendaal

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Adèle Maria Hameetman, beter bekend als Adèle Bloemendaal, was een Nederlands actrice, cabaretière en zangeres. Aanvankelijk trad ze op onder haar eigen naam Adèle Hameetman, later ook nog korte tijd als Adèle Hamé. Bloemendaal was de naam van haar eerste echtgenoot.

Gorden Kaye
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Gorden Kaye
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Gordon Fitzgerald (Gorden) Kaye was een Brits acteur.

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'Allo 'Allo!
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'Allo 'Allo! is een Britse komedieserie, uitgezonden op BBC tussen 1982 en 1992 met in totaal 85 afleveringen. De serie…

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10 gebeurtenissen
2003
NASA
The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.
2002
Daniel_Pearl
American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later murdered by al-Qaeda agents in Karachi, Pakistan.
2001
2001_Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident
Five people attempted to set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, an act that many later claimed to have been staged by the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
1997
Madeleine_Albright
Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time.
1993
NCSA_Mosaic
The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser.
1968
USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)
USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.
1957
Walter_Frederick_Morrison
American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee"
1942
World_War_II
World War II: Japan began an invasion of the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
1915
John_Chilembwe
Rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners, beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi.
1909
Tottenham_Outrage
Two men committed an armed robbery in Tottenham, London, and led police on a two-hour chase, partially by tram, that ended in the perpetrators' suicides.

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