The Euro currency was introduced and adopted by 11 Member States.
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Ellis Island opened as a US immigration inspection station.
Same-sex marriage became legal in Austria.
Estonia joined the Eurozone and adopted the Euro as its currency.
The dwarf planet Ceres was discovered by an Italian monk called Giuseppe Piazzi.
A B747 plane by Air India flying from Bombay, India to Dubai, UAE, crashed with no survivors.
