Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California.
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Fox News Channel began broadcasting.
A Spanish nurse became the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa.
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.
British Newspaper 'The Independent' was first published.