The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers Catalina Island off the coast of California.
