The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world’s most deadly diseases.
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Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
