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George H.W. Bush
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George Herbert Walker Bush was een Amerikaans politicus en diplomaat van de Republikeinse Partij en de 41e president van de Verenigde Staten van 1989 tot 1993.
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George Walker Bush is een Amerikaans politicus van de Republikeinse Partij. Tussen 2001 en 2009 was hij de 43e president…
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Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C., which broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match.
1991
A referendum held to ratify the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine passed with more than 92 percent of the vote.
1988
Five armed men hijacked a bus carrying schoolchildren and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, Russia), and were later given an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and ransom for the release of the hostages.
1974
Two Boeing 727s, TWA Flight 514 and Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashed in the eastern United States in unrelated circumstances, killing 95 people on board both aircraft.
1971
A period of political and economic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Croatia came to an end as the League of Communists of Yugoslavia decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.
1966
The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
1966
The first Gävle goat, a Swedish Yule goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground on New Year's Eve.
1959
Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
1958
The musical Flower Drum Song by Rodgers and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
1955
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.