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2018-01-24

Top reads and historical moments for this date. 5 min leestijd

Leontien van Moorsel

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Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella (Leontien) Zijlaard-van Moorsel is een Nederlands voormalig wielrenster en viervoudig olympisch kampioene met als bijnamen: Tinus, Ties en de Joekel van Boekel.

UEFA Nations League

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De UEFA Nations League is een internationale voetbalcompetitie voor mannenteams die om de twee jaar wordt gespeeld tusse…

Sander Schimmelpenninck

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Sander Cornelis Schimmelpenninck is een succesvolle Nederlands mediaondernemer en columnist.

Carola Schouten

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Plakkaat van Verlatinghe

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On This Day

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1990

Hiten_(spacecraft)

Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft (pictured), the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.

1987

1987_Forsyth_County_protests

About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.

1978

Nuclear_power

The Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 burned up during atmospheric reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories.

1977

Spanish_transition_to_democracy

Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.

1972

Shoichi_Yokoi

Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found in the jungles of Guam, where he had been hiding since the end of World War II.

1968

Vietnam_War

Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.

1961

Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress

A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina; one bomb was recovered intact, the other disintegrated.

1913

Michael_Moutoussis

Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.

1857

University_of_Calcutta

The University of Calcutta was established as the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent.

1848

James_W._Marshall

James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush.