English literature classic Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
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Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.