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De Azoren vormen een archipel in de Atlantische Oceaan die samen een autonome regio van de republiek Portugal vormen. De eilanden behoren tot de Europese Unie.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2009
A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.
2007
Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
2004
Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.
1991
U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.
1984
Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.
1981
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.
1971
The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.
1946
Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia.
1911
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.
1892
Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.