Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.
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New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.
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Soviet spacecraft Luna 6, destined for a moon landing, failed after flying right past it.
The King of France, Louis V, was crowned.
