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Lucas Rijneveld
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Lucas Rijneveld

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Lucas Rijneveld, eerder bekend onder de naam Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, is een Nederlandse schrijver en dichter. Als eerste Nederlandse schrijver won Rijneveld met het in het Engels vertaalde boek De avond is ongemak / The Discomfort of Evening in 2020 de International Booker Prize.

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Gaby Blaaser
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Gaby Blaaser is een Nederlands actrice, model en presentatrice.

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Michael Jordan
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan is een Amerikaans voormalig basketbalspeler en baseballspeler. Hij wordt over het algemeen bescho…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2018
Cubana_de_Aviación_Flight_0972
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.
2013
Murder_of_Mark_Carson
Mark Carson, an openly gay man, was murdered in a hate crime incident in New York City, prompting a 1,500-person march against anti-LGBTQ violence.
2009
Sri_Lanka_Army
The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war.
2006
Federal_Parliament_of_Nepal
The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.
2005
The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
1996
Republic_of_Ireland
Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.
1980
Mount_St._Helens
Mount St. Helens explosively erupted (pictured), killing approximately 57 people in southern Washington state, reducing hundreds of square miles to wasteland, and causing more than US$1 billion in damage.
1974
Smiling_Buddha
India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
1965
Eli_Cohen
Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.
1955
Operation_Passage_to_Freedom
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended.

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