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2017-05-01

Top reads and historical moments for this date. 4 min leestijd

Dag van de Arbeid

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De Dag van de Arbeid is een feestdag van de socialistische, communistische en anarchistische arbeidersbeweging. De dag vindt in Nederland, België, Aruba, Curaçao, Duitsland en Suriname elk jaar op 1 mei plaats. Andere landen wijken soms af van deze datum. In Europa is 1 mei in bijna alle landen een officiële feestdag, …

Romy Schneider

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Romy Schneider, pseudoniem van Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, was een Duitse actrice, die doorbrak met de vertolking van de…

Ricky van Wolfswinkel

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Ricky van Wolfswinkel is een Nederlands betaald voetballer die doorgaans centraal in de aanval speelt. Van Wolfswinkel d…

Eurovisiesongfestival 2017

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Peter Vos

9.130 weergaven

1 mei

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Albert Einstein

6.941 weergaven

Portugees oorlogsschip

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Nederland

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SBV Vitesse

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KNVB Beker

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Willem-Alexander der Nederlanden

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen

2016

2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire

The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.

1991

Major_League_Baseball

In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.

1974

Juan_Perón

Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.

1950

Gwendolyn_Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

1947

Salvatore_Giuliano

Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.

1945

World_War_II

Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

1941

Citizen_Kane

Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.

1931

Empire_State_Building

New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.

1900

Dust_explosion

A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.

1885

Chicago_Board_of_Trade_Building

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.