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.
The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Willem II became King of the Netherlands.
Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
