Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
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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 Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.