Greece legalized same-sex marriage and adoption, becoming the first Orthodox Christian Country to do so.
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Heineken International was founded in the Netherlands.
A trade union was founded that later became the current British Labor Party.
Great Britain ditched their Pence and Shillings currency values for decimal varieties.
Sabena Flight 458 crashed, killing the entire US Figure Skating team.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.