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.
Willem II became King of the Netherlands.
A Spanish nurse became the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa.
Fox News Channel began broadcasting.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
