English literature classic Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
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Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
