Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
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Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
