Adaptation directed by Spike Jonze, starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep, premiered.
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Taylor Swift was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
A first edition of 'The Birds of America' by John James Audubon was auctioned at Sotheby's, London, England, for £7,321,250 ($10 million) – which took the record for any book at auction.
Scientists discovered the most distant supermassive black hole.
The Altamont free concert occurred.
Finland declared its independence from the Russian Empire.
