Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
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Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
