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Robert Oppenheimer
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Robert Oppenheimer

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Julius Robert Oppenheimer was een Joods-Amerikaanse natuurkundige. Hij verwierf vooral bekendheid als wetenschappelijk directeur van het Manhattanproject, het project waarin tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog de eerste kernwapens ontwikkeld werden. Hij wordt daarom ook wel de "vader van de atoombom" genoemd.

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Alex Kroes
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Alexander (Alex) Kroes is een Nederlands voetbalbestuurder en ondernemer. Hij is sinds juni 2026 vicevoorzitter van de O…

Stephan van Baarle
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Stephan van Baarle
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Stephan Ruben Tobias (Stephan) van Baarle is een Nederlands politicus van DENK. Hij zat tussen 2018 en 2022 namens DENK …

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10 gebeurtenissen
2008
Murder_of_Khuan_Phokaeng
A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the sale of Grand Theft Auto.
2007
Raúl_Iturriaga
Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.
1986
Castle_in_the_Sky
The animated film Castle in the Sky, the first from Studio Ghibli, is released.
1973
Summerland_disaster
A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
1971
The_Who
The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.
1947
1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accident
Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.
1939
Leo_Szilard
Leo Szilard (pictured) penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
1932
California_Institute_of_Technology
At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1923
Calvin_Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
1920
Krishna_Lal_Adhikari
Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.

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