Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
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 Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
