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Getronics
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Getronics

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Getronics was een nationaal en internationaal dienstverlenend Nederlands bedrijf in de ICT-branche. In 2007 kwam het bedrijf in handen van telecommunicatieconcern KPN. Op 1 oktober 2011 verviel de naam Getronics voor de Nederlandse activiteiten, nadat Getronics per 1 september was geïntegreerd in KPN Corporate Market. …

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Marloes Coenen
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Marloes Coenen is een Nederlands voormalig MMA-vechtster. Ze was van oktober 2010 tot juli 2011 Strikeforce-kampioen in …

Corrie van Gorp
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Corrie van Gorp
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Cornelia Elizabeth (Corrie) van Gorp was een Nederlands actrice en zangeres.

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10 gebeurtenissen
2012
2012_Afghanistan_earthquakes
Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.
2011
Semi-professional_sports
The semi-professional English football club Gedling Town F.C. withdrew from league football, shortly before its dissolution.
2008
Stephen_Harper
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
2007
2007_Chittagong_mudslides
Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
2001
Timothy_McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection for using a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges.
2001
Tesco_bomb_campaign
Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.
1963
Bhikkhu
Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
1963
University_of_Alabama
The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured).
1962
June_1962_Alcatraz_escape
American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States' most famous prisons.
1923
Jasper_Abraham_murder_case
Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to reform of the legal system of the Kenya Colony.

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