Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen’s novel “”Sense and Sensibility.”
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The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
