Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
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Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between HAMAS and Israeli forces began.
