Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
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George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
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.
Ireland ended its ban on divorce.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between HAMAS and Israeli forces began.
