Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
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Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
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.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
