Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
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Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.