The first-ever World AIDS day started in effort to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic.
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Pedro I was crowned Emperor of Brazil.
Shaw University, the first historically Black university in the southern United States, was founded.
The Great Train Robbery, the first-ever Western film, was released.
The computer-animated film 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' premiered in Los Angeles.
Paul McCartney and Pete Best were arrested.