English literature classic Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
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Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
