Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
He claimed it for Spain and called it Juana.
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Macy's Department Store first opened.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.