Same-sex marriage became legal in Austria.
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Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
A monk put an end to gladiator fighting in Rome.
The country of Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved into two nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The dwarf planet Ceres was discovered by an Italian monk called Giuseppe Piazzi.
Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union.
