Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
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The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
