Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.
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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.
Cristiano Ronaldo topped Forbes' Highest-Paid Athletes List, becoming the first soccer player to do so.
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.
