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Max Emilian Verstappen is een Nederlands-Belgisch autocoureur. Hij rijdt onder de Nederlandse vlag in de Formule 1 voor …
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Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is een Brits Formule 1-coureur en zevenvoudig wereldkampioen. Hij rijdt sinds 2025 bij …
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2021
At the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Max Verstappen overtook Lewis Hamilton on the final lap to become World Drivers' Champion.
2012
North Korea made its first successful satellite launch, as Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 reached orbit.
2000
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped, effectively making George W. Bush (pictured) the winner.
1988
Three trains collided near Clapham Junction railway station in London, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.
1979
A magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck just off the shore of Tumaco, Colombia, causing at least 300 deaths, mostly by the resulting tsunami.
1969
The Greek junta announced its withdrawal from the Council of Europe after the junta was found guilty of torture and other human-rights violations by the European Commission of Human Rights.
1964
Jomo Kenyatta became the first president of the Republic of Kenya.
1942
World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
1941
The Holocaust: At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish people.
1939
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duchess (pictured) collided with HMS Barham, the battleship she was escorting, and Duchess sank with heavy loss of life.