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2017-02-12

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Piet Keizer (voetballer)

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Petrus Johannes (Piet) Keizer was een Nederlands profvoetballer. Hij was de linksbuiten van de gouden voorhoede van Ajax, in de tijd dat deze club drie jaar achter elkaar de Europacup I won. Uitkomend voor Ajax was hij een van de meest scorende spelers. Keizer speelde 34 maal voor het Nederlands elftal.

Geert Wilders

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Geert Wilders is een Nederlands politicus. Hij is oprichter, het enige lid, partij- en fractievoorzitter van de radicaal…

Patricia Paay

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Patricia Anglaia Margareth Paaij is een Nederlands zangeres en mediapersoonlijkheid. Ze schrijft haar achternaam sinds h…

Das Lied der Deutschen

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Abbey Hoes

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Al Jarreau

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The Shawshank Redemption

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Victoria van het Verenigd Koninkrijk

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen

2016

Catholic_Church

In the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow signed the Havana Declaration at José Martí International Airport in Cuba.

2009

Buffalo_Niagara_International_Airport

Just before landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49 people on board the aircraft.

2003

La_Paz

Protesters in La Paz and the Bolivian government brokered a deal to end two days of rioting against a proposed salary tax.

2001

NASA

The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

1994

Edvard_Munch

Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (pictured) was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.

1993

Murder_of_James_Bulger

Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.

1988

Innocent_passage

While claiming the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, the American cruiser USS Yorktown and destroyer USS Caron were bumped by Soviet warships.

1968

Death_of_Echol_Cole_and_Robert_Walker

Following the deaths of two employees on the job, black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, began a strike that lasted more than two months.

1945

Tornado_outbreak_of_February_12,_1945

A devistating tornado outbreak across Mississippi and Alabama kills 45 people and injures 427 others.

1942

Imperial_Japanese_Army

The Imperial Japanese Army initiated the Battle of Pasir Panjang in Kent Ridge Park in Singapore.