The first-ever World AIDS day started in effort to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic.
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Jay-Z stabbed Lance Rivera.
The Great Train Robbery, the first-ever Western film, was released.
The final film in the Lord of the Rings series 'The Return of the King,' directed by Peter Jackson, premiered in Wellington, New Zealand.
Pedro I was crowned Emperor of Brazil.
Shaw University, the first historically Black university in the southern United States, was founded.
