Californian Judge Vaughn Walker overturned the same-sex marriage ban.
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Two passenger trains derailed in Madhya Pradesh, India.
NASA launched the Phoenix spaceship from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US.
The Treaty of Sistova was signed, which ended the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
A galaxy named 'Dwingeloo 1' was discovered to be just 10 million light-years from our own.
French monk Dom Pierre Pérignon accidentally made champagne.
