Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
