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A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California.
A Spanish nurse became the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa.
The first-ever infrared photo was taken in Rochester, New York.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.