20 juli
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20 juli is de 201ste dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 164 dagen tot het einde van het jaar. Dit is de eerste dag van de hondsdagen, ook wel pisgriet genoemd.
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De nationale feestdag van België wordt gevierd op 21 juli. Het is de dag waarop in 1831 de eerste koning der Belgen, Leo…
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Peter Sagan is een Slowaaks voormalig wielrenner. Hij was een allrounder met een zeer sterke eindsprint. In de jeugdcate…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2015
A suicide attack (aftermath pictured) in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility, killed 34 people and injured 104 others.
2012
A gunman carried out a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
2001
Twenty-three-year-old Italian anti-globalist Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a police officer while protesting outside the 27th G8 summit held in Genoa, Italy.
1997
USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after a full restoration.
1982
Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London, killing eleven British Army personnel and seven horses.
1977
Rain from a stalled thunderstorm caused six dams to fail, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania, resulting in 84 deaths and $340 in damages.
1976
The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.
1969
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later (bootprint pictured).
1968
The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1951
Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.