New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.
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Cristiano Ronaldo topped Forbes' Highest-Paid Athletes List, becoming the first soccer player to do so.
Soviet spacecraft Luna 6, destined for a moon landing, failed after flying right past it.
Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.
Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.
World Oceans Day was celebrated for the first time.
