Sony released the PlayStation 3 console in North America.
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The legislation was passed, allowing females to be appointed as bishops of The Church of England.
The Ottoman Empire ended when the last Sultan Mehmed VI was exiled to Malta on a British warship.
Queen Elizabeth I was coronated and re-established the protestant Church of England.
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 became the first robotic lunar rover to land on the Moon's surface.
Hundreds of people died after a New England Blizzard.