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Dennis van Scheppingen

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Dennis van Scheppingen is een Nederlands voormalig tennisser. Hij trad in 1993 toe tot de professionals en nam in 2007 afscheid. Van Scheppingen legde in zijn tennisloopbaan de nadruk op het enkelspel en speelde in het profcircuit weinig dubbelspel.

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Tennis in Nederland
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Dit is een overzicht van de beste tennissers en tennissters van Nederland, alle enkelspeltitels van Nederlandse tennisse…

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Jan Van Hecke
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Jan Van Hecke is een Belgisch acteur. Hij is vooral bekend van zijn rollen als Pieter-Paul Pruim in Big & Betsy en als A…

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2006
George_W._Bush
US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas.
1996
The_Troubles
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
1995
1995_Aigio_earthquake
Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 Mw that killed 26 people.
1991
1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatubo
An eruption of Mount Pinatubo (pictured) in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to briefly lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
1978
Hussein_of_Jordan
King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured).
1944
World_War_II
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.
1921
Bessie_Coleman
Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
1920
Duluth_lynchings
Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States.
1896
1896_Sanriku_earthquake
A magnitude-8.5 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes.
1878
Eadweard_Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops (animation pictured), which became the basis of motion pictures

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