New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.
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Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.
Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.
Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.
Margaret Bondfield became the first female cabinet minister in the UK.
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.
