Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.
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World Oceans Day was celebrated for the first time.
New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.
The discovery of the chemical element Neptunium was announced.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.
