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Lieke Martens
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Lieke Martens

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Lieke Elisabeth Petronella Martens-van Leer is een Nederlands voormalige profvoetbalster die doorgaans als aanvalster speelde. Ze werd op 6 augustus 2017 met het Nederlands elftal Europees kampioen. Tevens kreeg ze de prijs voor beste speelster van het toernooi. Op 24 augustus 2017 werd Martens door de UEFA verkozen to…

Shanice van de Sanden
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Shanice van de Sanden
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Shanice Janice van de Sanden is een Nederlands voetbalster van Surinaamse afkomst. Ze speelt als aanvalster voor PSV en …

Vivianne Miedema
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Vivianne Miedema
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Anna Margaretha Marina Astrid (Vivianne) Miedema is een Nederlands voetbalster die doorgaans speelt als spits. Ze speelt…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2013
2013_Rosario_gas_explosion
A gas leak caused an explosion that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in Rosario, Argentina.
2011
2011_England_riots
A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police officers.
2010
2010_Ladakh_floods
Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.
2008
Sidi_Ould_Cheikh_Abdallahi
Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier.
1997
Korean_Air_Flight_801
Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard.
1996
Meteorite
Researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001 (pictured), discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.
1991
Programmer
British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, known as the World Wide Web.
1979
1979_Coyote_Lake_earthquake
An earthquake struck along the Calaveras Fault near Coyote Lake, California, injuring sixteen people.
1965
Lyndon_B._Johnson
U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.
1945
World_War_II
World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (mushroom cloud pictured), killing about 70,000 people instantly.

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