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Simone Biles
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Simone Biles

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Simone Arianne Biles is een turnster uit de Verenigde Staten. Met 41 medailles op Olympische Spelen en wereldkampioenschappen is ze de meest gelauwerde gymnast aller tijden. Biles' favoriete onderdeel in de turnmeerkamp is vloer.

Herman van der Zandt
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Herman van der Zandt
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Herman van der Zandt is een Nederlands journalist, nieuwslezer en presentator.

Demi Schuurs
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Demi Schuurs
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Demi Schuurs is een Nederlands tennisspeelster. Haar favoriete ondergrond is gras. Zij speelt rechtshandig en heeft een …

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2009
Tel_Aviv_gay_centre_shooting
A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.
2007
I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
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
Ycuá_Bolaños_supermarket_fire
Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.
1991
George_H._W._Bush
U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.
1984
Peat
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
"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
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
Partisan_Congress_riots
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
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.
1892
Jef_Denyn
Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.

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