Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
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Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
