Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
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Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
