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