Cristiano Ronaldo topped Forbes’ Highest-Paid Athletes List, becoming the first soccer player to do so.
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New South Wales, Australia, celebrated the first day of homosexuality being legal.
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.
Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.
Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England. He was considered the last king of the House of Wessex.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.
