Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
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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.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
