Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
Source
STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
A party boat on Lake Victoria in Uganda capsized and killed 29 people.
From this day until February 10, 1435, London's Thames river completely froze.
Charles Darwin published his revolutionary work, On the Origin of Species.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between HAMAS and Israeli forces began.