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.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
