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The Netherlands' flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
British Newspaper 'The Independent' was first published.
A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
