Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
