Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
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Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
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.
