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Gibraltar
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Gibraltar

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Gibraltar is een Brits overzees gebied gelegen aan het zuidelijke eind van het Iberisch Schiereiland bij de ingang van de Middellandse Zee. De stadstaat heeft een oppervlakte van 6,8 km² en een noordelijke grens met Andalusië, Spanje. De Rots van Gibraltar is de belangrijkste bezienswaardigheid van het gebied. De econo…

John van 't Schip
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John van 't Schip
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Johannes Nicolaas (John) van 't Schip is een Nederlands-Canadees voetbaltrainer en voormalig profvoetballer. Hij speelde…

Sint-Petersburg
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Sint-Petersburg
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Sint-Petersburg is een stad in het noordwesten van Rusland. Het is na Moskou de grootste stad van het land en een belang…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2016
Panama_Papers
The first news stories on the Panama Papers were published, revealing that shell corporations represented by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had been used for illegal purposes.
2013
Buenos_Aires_Province
The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.
2010
Apple_Inc.
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2009
2009_Binghamton_shooting
A gunman opened fire at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2000
United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.
1996
Boeing_T-43
A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing all 35 people on board, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
1984
Soyuz_T-11
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma (pictured) became the first Indian to be launched into space.
1933
Douglas_Douglas-Hamilton,_14th_Duke_of_Hamilton
Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest.
1895
Defamation
The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.
1888
Emma_Elizabeth_Smith
Emma Elizabeth Smith was killed in the first of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.

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