The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world’s most deadly diseases.
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Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
