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.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
