Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
He claimed it for Spain and called it Juana.
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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.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
