Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
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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.
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
