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Mick Jagger
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Sir Michael Philip Jagger is een Brits rockmuzikant, acteur, schrijver, componist en producer, maar is het bekendst als …

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The Rolling Stones, vaak kortweg aangeduid als The Stones, is een Britse rockband die actief is sinds 1962. De band spee…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2024
Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashed at Muan International Airport while attempting to perform a belly-landing after losing engine thrust to a flock of Baikal teal.
1994
Turkish Airlines Flight 278 crashed on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
1975
Planted by unknown perpetrators, a bomb exploded (aftermath pictured) at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others.
1959
American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology.
1940
Second World War: The Luftwaffe began a major night bombing raid on the British capital as part of the Blitz, beginning what was later called the "Second Great Fire of London".
1928
The Northern Expedition, a military campaign by the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang, ended with the complete control of the Republic of China.
1915
First World War: The French parliament passed a law granting the land occupied by British war graves as "the free gift of the French people".
1913
Cecil B. DeMille started filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man (featured).
1890
Sioux Wars: The United States Army killed 250 to 300 Lakota men, women and children at the Wounded Knee Massacre, beginning the Ghost Dance War.
1876
A railway bridge collapsed over the Ashtabula River in Ohio, killing 92 people and injuring 64 others on a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train.

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