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Titanic (schip, 1912)
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Titanic (schip, 1912)

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RMS Titanic was het tweede van een drietal luxeschepen uit de Olympic-klasse, bedoeld om een groot deel van het trans-Atlantisch post- en passagiersverkeer te verwerken. Titanic was eigendom van rederij White Star Line en kwam in de nacht van 14 op 15 april 1912 op haar eerste reis met bijna volle kracht in aanvaring m…

Zijdevlinder
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Zijdevlinder
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De zijdevlinder of zijderups is een vlinder uit de familie van de echte spinners (Bombycidae). Het is een van de bekends…

Manfred de Graaf
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Manfred de Graaf
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Manfred Marcel Derman, tot 2003 Manfred Marcel de Graaf, was een Nederlands acteur.

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2016
LaMia_Flight_2933
LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.
1987
South_African_Airways_Flight_295
South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.
1979
Mount_Erebus_disaster
Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1967
Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.
1966
Michel_Micombero
In a military coup, Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.
1925
Grand_Ole_Opry
Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
1912
All-Albanian_Congress
At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
1903
SS_Petriana
SS Petriana struck a reef near Point Nepean, leading to Australia's first major oil spill and a debate over the White Australia policy.
1895
Chicago_Times-Herald_race
The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
1811
Ludwig_van_Beethoven
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

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