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Hendrik Albertus (Henk) Elsink was een Nederlandse cabaretier, zanger en schrijver.
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Hong Kong–based writer and publisher Gui Minhai, known for writing about Chinese Communist Party politicians, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for intelligence violations.
2009
At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.
1994
Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
1986
Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted from power by the non-violent People Power Revolution, with Corazon Aquino succeeding as president.
1980
The first prime minister of independent Suriname, Henck Arron (pictured), was deposed in a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
1956
In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
1951
After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural edition of the Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1948
Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, President Edvard Beneš (pictured) ceded control of the government to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
1933
USS Ranger (pictured), the United States Navy's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, was launched.
1870
Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be seated in the U.S. Congress.