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Dolly Dots
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De Dolly Dots is een Nederlandse meidengroep die vooral in het begin van de jaren tachtig populair was.
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Maria Petronella (Ria) Brieffies was een Nederlandse zangeres, die in de jaren tachtig bekend werd als lid van de Dolly …
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Antoinetta Johanna Margaretha (Anita) Heilker is een Nederlands zangeres en stemactrice.
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On This Day
10 events2015
Elizabeth II (pictured) became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.
2010
A natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded and "shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet (300 m) in the air", killing eight people.
2001
Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, a pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States.
1999
The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.
1971
Imagine, the second solo album by John Lennon (pictured), was released.
1969
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 occupants of and destroying both aircraft.
1962
French president Charles de Gaulle delivered his "speech to the German youth" to 20,000 people in the courtyard of Ludwigsburg Palace (pictured).
1957
U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
1954
A magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck near Chlef, killing over 1,200 people and forcing the Algerian government to implement comprehensive reforms in building codes.
1939
World War II: About 3,000 Polish Army troops began a nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion of Poland.