Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen’s novel “”Sense and Sensibility.”
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Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.