Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.