The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
A Spanish nurse became the first person to contract Ebola outside of West Africa.
Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California.
The Netherlands' flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
