The first-ever World AIDS day started in effort to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic.
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Shaw University, the first historically Black university in the southern United States, was founded.
The final film in the Lord of the Rings series 'The Return of the King,' directed by Peter Jackson, premiered in Wellington, New Zealand.
Slavery in Cape Colony, Britain's colony in South Africa, was abolished by the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.
Rosa Parks was arrested.
Paul McCartney and Pete Best were arrested.
