Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
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Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.