Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers Catalina Island off the coast of California.
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Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
The first-ever infrared photo was taken in Rochester, New York.
Swedish music streaming service Spotify was launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
