WikiLeaks is an organisation that publishes secret documents and other material provided by anonymous sources, founded by the Australian Julian Assange. It first came to wide attention in 2010, when it released a video of a US helicopter attack in Baghdad, followed by large collections of classified American military records on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a quarter of a million diplomatic cables, which had been supplied by the army analyst Chelsea Manning. In 2016 it published emails from the Democratic National Committee. Supporters see the site as a tool for transparency and press freedom, while critics say that the releases endangered people and national security. Assange spent years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and in prison, and was released in 2024 after a plea agreement.
Before and after
- 18 September 2006SN 2006gy
- from 25 September 2006 to 8 February 2010Premiere of Heroes
- 28 September 2006Construction of Suvarnabhumi Airport
- from 1 October 2006 to 22 September 2013Premiere of Dexter
- 4 October 2006Founding of WikiLeaks
- 10 October 2006Launch of VK
- November 2006Discovery of TrES-2b
- 14 November 2006Creation of PowerShell
- December 2006The Yangtze river dolphin is declared functionally extinct
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- 1945Founding of International Court of Justice
- 27 December 1945Founding of World Bank
- 14 September 1960Founding of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- 8 December 1991Founding of Commonwealth of Independent States
- 1 January 1995Founding of World Trade Organization
- 4 February 2004Founding of Facebook
The era
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