Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
He claimed it for Spain and called it Juana.
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The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
