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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was een beruchte Colombiaanse drugsbaron, die een van de rijkste mensen ter wereld werd door zijn wereldwijde handel in speed cocaïne.
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen2017
North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake.
2001
The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1991
A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
1987
While he was abroad, Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état by Pierre Buyoya.
1942
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors.
1936
The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
1935
On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
1901
At the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
1878
The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding (pictured) with the collier Bywell Castle, killing more than 600 people.
1777
American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian allies defeated an American militia at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.