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Zomertijd
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Zomertijd

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Zomertijd is de tijd die gedurende de lente, zomer en vroege herfst wordt aangehouden door de klok een uur vooruit te zetten; dit wil zeggen de klok een uur voor te laten lopen op de standaardtijd, die in dit verband ook wel wintertijd genoemd wordt. In de zomer komt de zon zo vroeg op dat het al licht is terwijl de me…

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Zoekmachineoptimalisatie
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Zoekmachineoptimalisatie is een onderdeel van zoekmachinemarketing en kan worden gedefinieerd als het geheel aan activit…

Danny Blind
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Danny Blind
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Dirk Franciscus (Danny) Blind is een voormalig Nederlands voetballer van Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax en het Nederlands elftal…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2010
Torpedo
An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
2009
Tesla_Model_S
A prototype of the Tesla Model S, one of the most influential electric cars in history, was unveiled.
1999
Jack_Kevorkian
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
1997
Rancho_Santa_Fe,_California
Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.
1975
Biological_Weapons_Convention
The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
1953
Jonas_Salk
Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
1942
SS_Dixie_Arrow
The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71.
1939
Francoist_Spain
Nationalist forces began their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
1917
World_War_I
First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
1913
First_Balkan_War
First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.

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