Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.
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The first-ever infrared photo was taken in Rochester, New York.
A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California.