Magellan reaches the Pacific, William Shakespeare gets hitched, the Grand Ole Opry debuts, Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci defects, and Jeffrey Dahmer is killed in prison, all on this day.
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Wikileaks
2010: WikiLeaks and five major newspapers start to release to the public the first of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, about 100,000 of which were marked "secret" or "confidential."