Known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys, Van Basten was named European Footballer of the Year three times ( 1988, ' 89 and ' 92 ) and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1992.

Van Basten was voted eighth in a poll organised by the French weekly magazine France Football consulting their former Ballon d ' Or winners to elect the Football Player of the Century.

In 2004, a nationwide poll was held for the 100 greatest Dutch people ( De Grootste Nederlander ) and Van Basten was number 25, the second highest for a football player.

In March 2007, Sky Sports ranked Van Basten first on its list of great athletes who had their careers cut short.

Van Basten was born on 31 October 1964 in Utrecht.

Van Basten with the KNVB Cup.

AFC Ajax signed Van Basten for the 1981 – 82 season.

After Kieft left for Serie A club Pisa the next season, Van Basten solidified his position as the team's main attacker.

In 1987, Silvio Berlusconi signed Van Basten for Milan, with fellow countrymen Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard joining in 1988.

In his first season, Milan won their first Scudetto in eight years, but Van Basten played only 11 games and was constantly troubled by an ankle injury.

In 1988 – 89, Van Basten won the Ballon d ' Or as Europe's top footballer.

After Van Basten fell out with Arrigo Sacchi, Berlusconi sacked the manager.

Van Basten scored 25 league goals, and became Capocannoniere again.

Van Basten played exceptionally well in the early part of the season.

At the UEFA Euro 1988, Van Basten scored a total of five goals, including a hat trick against England, the winning goal in the semi-final against West Germany, and a spectacular volley in the final against the Soviet Union.

Van Basten never scored in the World Cup Finals.

The Netherlands reached the semi-final of UEFA Euro 1992 when they lost to Denmark in a penalty shootout, with Peter Schmeichel saving a penalty shot from Van Basten.

Van Basten while manager of the Netherlands.

Van Basten officially left Milan in 1995 and retired from football, stating he would never try management.

On 29 July 2004, Van Basten was named the new manager of the Dutch national team, with van't Schip as his assistant.

Van Basten famously dropped regulars like Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert, Edgar Davids and Roy Makaay and benched Mark van Bommel, because he believed that they were either past their prime or constantly underachieving.

There were also calls for Van Basten to call up Dennis Bergkamp, who had retired from the national team six years earlier for a final " hurrah " as he was retiring that season.

Van Basten then revealed to the media that he never intended to do so despite Bergkamp's own willingness.

Van Basten ( left ) with Klaas-Jan Huntelaar during training prior to Euro 2008.

Jay had participated in the decision that exiled his old friend Van Schaack.

Not long after Colonel Van Hamm had foisted me on the Watson staff I received a salary raise and a contract on the Hetman's recommendation.

In the late 1700's Beccaria and Van Marum, among others, had magnetized iron by sending an electrostatic charge through it.

Everybody had heard of Van Gogh, the French impressionist.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Van Gaal had already left for Bayern Munich after becoming league champions with AZ.

Bacardi had architects Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela design office buildings and a bottling plant for them in Mexico City during the 1950s.

According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

Truffaut and his colleagues argued that Hitchcock had a style as distinct as that of Flaubert or Van Gogh: the virtuoso editing, the lyrical camera movements, the droll humour.

" Van Ash speculates that Fu Manchu had been a member of the Imperial family who backed the losing side in the Boxer Rebellion.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

That same year, investigation proved convicts still had ample access to illicit drugs and four inmates from the Dr. S. Van Mesdagkliniek were arrested for possession of child pornography.

Van Buren and Polk faced pressure to rescind the Specie Circular, an act that had been signed by Jackson to boost the economy.

Van Buren opposed the annexation but in doing so lost the support of many Democrats, including former President Andrew Jackson, who still had much influence.

Craig Evans ( and separately Robert Van Voorst ) state that most modern scholars accept the position that the Testimonium is partially authentic, had a kernel with an authentic reference to Jesus, and that the analysis of its content and style support this conclusion.

Van Voorst states that if the original references to Jesus had had a negative tone, the Christian scribes would have likely deleted it entirely.

Larner had previously played koto with John Fahey, Jim O ' Rourke and members of indie rock groups including Camper Van Beethoven, Deerhoof, Jackie O Motherfucker and Mr. Bungle.

By 1837, after Van Buren had become president, banks were clearly in trouble.