Carl Nassib became the first openly-gay NFL player to play a regular-season game.
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Construction on the world's longest railway in Russia was completed.
Manchester Mark I computer became the first stored computer to run a program at a lab at Manchester University, UK.
Louis St. Laurent resigned as the prime minister of Canada.
J.K. Rowling published the 5th Harry Potter book 'The Order of the Phoenix.'
The guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.
