British Newspaper “The Independent” was first published.
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A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
A Spanish nurse became the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa.
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 allowed the world to look at the far side of the moon for the first time.
Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
Willem II became King of the Netherlands.
