Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
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STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between HAMAS and Israeli forces began.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
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.
