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André Hazes
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André Hazes

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André Gerardus Hazes, postuum ook wel bekend als André Hazes sr. ter onderscheid van zijn gelijknamige zoon, was een Nederlandse volkszanger. Vanaf de late jaren 70 verwierf hij grote populariteit in Nederland en Vlaanderen met zijn eigentijdse vertolking van het levenslied. Hazes geldt als een van de succesvolste arti…

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Kinderen van Moeder Aarde
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Kinderen van Moeder Aarde is het eerste deel van een trilogie van Thea Beckman, uitgegeven in 1985. Het is een toekomstr…

Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
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Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
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Jean-Pierre P.A.J. Van Rossem was een Belgisch econoom, publiek figuur, econometrist, zakenman, schrijver, publicist, ve…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2019
Citizenship_Amendment_Act_protests
Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local women blockaded a major road in Delhi, India, to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act.
2013
South_Sudanese_Civil_War
The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council in Juba.
1981
Shia_Islam
The Iraqi Shia Islamist group al-Dawa carried out one of the first modern suicide bombings, targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in 61 deaths and at least 100 injuries.
1970
Venera_7
The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another planet.
1961
Adolf_Eichmann
Former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death after being found guilty on fifteen criminal charges, including war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1946
Iran_crisis_of_1946
U.S.-backed Iranian troops brought an end to the Iran crisis when they marched on the breakaway Republic of Mahabad and recaptured the territory.
1945
Supreme_Commander_for_the_Allied_Powers
The US-led occupying forces ordered the government of Japan to cease state support for Shinto.
1943
World_War_II
World War II: Australian and American forces (pictured) began the Battle of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a larger landing at Cape Gloucester.
1939
Epic_film
The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
1906
Great_Northern,_Piccadilly_and_Brompton_Railway
The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, a 14.17-kilometre (8.80 mi) long deep-level underground tube railway connecting Hammersmith and Finsbury Park, London, opened.

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