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Luca Brecel is een Belgische professionele snookerspeler. In 2023 kroonde hij zich tot wereldkampioen in die sport.
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10 gebeurtenissen2016
The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.
1991
In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.
1974
Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.
1950
Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
1947
Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.
1945
Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.
1941
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.
1931
New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.
1900
A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.
1885
The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.