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Pieter Paulus (Paul) van Vliet was een Nederlands cabaretier. Verder was hij goodwillambassadeur voor UNICEF.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2017
The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier.
2007
Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots.
2002
An expelled student murdered sixteen people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany.
1999
The CIH virus activated widely, damaging hundreds of thousands of computers and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
1994
Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeoff/go-around switch, causing the aircraft to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1989
An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests.
1989
A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh and killed an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest tornado in history.
1986
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) near Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a fire, a nuclear meltdown, and the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people around Europe.
1970
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force.
1964
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president.