English literature classic Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
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Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
