Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen’s novel “”Sense and Sensibility.”
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Macy's Department Store first opened.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
