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Congo-Kinshasa, kortweg Congo en officieel de Democratische Republiek Congo, kortweg DRC, is een land in Centraal-Afrika…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2017
Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people.
2015
A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people during a prayer service.
2009
Following a petition, the liberal progressive Czech Pirate Party was officially registered as a political party.
1972
Five men were arrested for attempted burglary on the offices of the Democratic National Committee, igniting the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of US president Richard Nixon more than two years later.
1963
Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
1952
Guatemalan Revolution: The Guatemalan Congress passed Decree 900, redistributing unused land greater than 224 acres (0.91 km2) in area to local peasants.
1940
Second World War: RMS Lancastria was sunk by German aircraft near Saint-Nazaire, France, causing thousands of fatalities in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
1919
Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer.
1913
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
1900
Boxer Rebellion: Allied naval forces captured the Taku Forts from Qing China after a brief but bloody battle.