Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
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Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
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.
