Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
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Psy's 'Gangnam Style' music video became the most viewed video on YouTube, passing 800 million views.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
