Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
He claimed it for Spain and called it Juana.
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Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
