Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
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The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
