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Swedish music streaming service Spotify was launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
The Netherlands' flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
A Spanish nurse became the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa.
