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Jan Cremer
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Jan Cremer

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Jan Cremer was een Nederlandse schrijver en beeldend kunstenaar. Hij is vooral bekend van de roman Ik Jan Cremer uit 1964 en Ik Jan Cremer Tweede Boek uit 1966. Cremer had een scherp gehoor voor vulgair, humoristisch taalgebruik en oog voor de absurde kant van de Amerikaanse glamourwereld, wat hem verwant maakt aan Lou…

Salvatore Riina
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Salvatore Riina
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Salvatore (Totò) Riina was een Italiaans crimineel. Riina was lid van de Siciliaanse maffia en groeide in de vroege jare…

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Spijtoptant
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Een spijtoptant is in het algemeen iemand die een keuze heeft gemaakt en daar later van terug wil komen omdat hij er spi…

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2013
Tornado_outbreak_of_November_17,_2013
An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indiana.
2013
Tatarstan_Airlines_Flight_363
Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.
2009
University_of_East_Anglia
Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
1997
Luxor_massacre
Sixty-two people were killed by Islamist terrorists outside Deir el-Bahari (temple pictured) in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
1989
Walt_Disney_Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures released The Little Mermaid to theatres, beginning the Disney Renaissance.
1968
NBC
NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
1950
14th_Dalai_Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15.
1943
World_War_II
World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg.
1941
World_War_II
World War II: Hjalmar Siilasvuo ordered Finnish forces to halt their assault against Soviet forces near Salla, concluding Operation Arctic Fox.
1921
Prince_of_Wales_riots
Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.

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