The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Source
Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
The Netherlands' flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California.
Fox News Channel began broadcasting.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
