Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
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.”
