Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was first published in the UK.
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Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather won five Golden Globe awards.
Honeybees stung Johannes Relleke a world record 2,443 times in Zimbabwe.
Michelangelo's famous painting 'Christ of the Woman of Samaria' was sold for a staggering $7.4 million.
A patent was received for Ole Kirk Christiansen's LEGO plastic bricks.
Spain founded the Spanish Legion; an army unit made up of foreign soldiers.