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Thierry Henri Philippe Baudet is een Nederlands politicus namens Forum voor Democratie (FVD) en auteur. Van 2017 tot 2026 was Baudet lid van de Tweede Kamer.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2005
A fire and explosion at an oil refinery in Texas City, the third-largest in the United States, killed 15 workers.
1996
Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
1994
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.
1993
The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.
1991
The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
1989
Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim that was later discredited.
1977
British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.
1933
The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.
1931
Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities for their murder of a police officer.
1919
Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.