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.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
