Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
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English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
