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Pinksteren

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Pinksteren of Sinksen is een christelijke feestdag, waarmee de uitstorting van de Heilige Geest wordt herdacht. Deze uitstorting wordt beschouwd als het begin van het christendom en als de eerste christelijke opwekking.

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Ariana Grande-Butera, is een Amerikaans zangeres en actrice. Als actrice kreeg Grande voornamelijk bekendheid door haar …

Cheick Tioté
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Cheick Tioté
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Cheick Ismaël Tioté was een Ivoriaans betaald voetballer die als verdedigende middenvelder speelde. Hij speelde voor RSC…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2009
2009_Hermosillo_daycare_center_fire
A fire at a day-care center kills 49 children in Mexico
2009
2009_Peruvian_political_crisis
After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and indigenous people in Bagua province, Peru.
2004
Noël_Mamère
Noël Mamère, the mayor of Bègles, conducted a marriage ceremony for two men, even though same-sex marriage in France had not yet been legalised.
2001
Tropical_Storm_Allison
Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, causing approximately $8.5 billion in damage.
1997
Pascal_Lissouba
Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Republic of the Congo ordered the detention of his rival Denis Sassou Nguesso, initiating a second civil war.
1989
Tank_Man
An anonymous demonstrator, later dubbed "Tank Man", single-handedly stopped a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests before being dragged aside.
1981
HIV/AIDS
The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
1976
Teton_Dam
The Teton Dam in eastern Idaho, U.S., collapsed as its reservoir was being filled for the first time, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and 13,000 cattle, and causing up to $2 billion in damage.
1968
Robert_F._Kennedy
U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
1967
Operation_Focus
Following Israel's initiation of Operation Focus with the goal to neutralise the Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force, and the Royal Jordanian Air Force, the Six-Day War begins.

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