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On This Day

10 events
2016
The first news stories on the Panama Papers were published, revealing that shell corporations represented by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had been used for illegal purposes.
2013
The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.
2010
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2009
A gunman opened fire at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2000
In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.
1996
A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing all 35 people on board, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
1984
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma (pictured) became the first Indian to be launched into space.
1933
Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest.
1895
The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.
1888
Emma Elizabeth Smith was killed in the first of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.

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