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The first direct observational evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole were made at the David Dunlap Observatory (pictured) outside Toronto. 
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| The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building is the tallest building in Harlem. |
| The Maya archaeological site of El Tintal, in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall. |
| The Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA, to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation. |
| HMS Lively won five battle honours during the Second World War, despite a career lasting less than a year from commissioning to being sunk. |
| The publication of a rare memoir by concentration camp survivor Heinz Heger has been described as a turning point in the gay community's adoption of the pink triangle symbol (pictured). |
| The organizers of San Francisco's Trans March rerouted the event through the city's Mission District to draw attention to violence against transgender people?. |
| The main theme of Indian novelist V.J.P. Saldanha's writings was the 18th-century captivity of 60,000 Mangalorean Roman Catholics at Seringapatam. |
| São Gabriel was one of the two ships of Vasco da Gama's armada that returned from the trip to India. |
| The poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman, shortly before his own death in 1994. |
| Despite having organized the first LGBT rights demonstration in the US, activist Randy Wicker denounced the Stonewall riots, saying that "throwing rocks through windows doesn't open doors". |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel used light rails and heavy timber baulks for the Great Western Railway's baulk road track because existing technology could not produce strong rails. |
| The LGBT rights group One Iowa held public forums during the landmark case Varnum v. Brien to discuss the importance of marriage equality (pro same-sex marriage rally pictured). |
| Kelly Misa ranked 84th in the FHM Philippines' sexiest women of 2006. |
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