Swedish music streaming service Spotify was launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
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The first-ever infrared photo was taken in Rochester, New York.
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.
Fox News Channel began broadcasting.
Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
