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