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.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
