Swedish music streaming service Spotify was launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
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The Netherlands' flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
British Newspaper 'The Independent' was first published.
A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
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.
