Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen’s novel “”Sense and Sensibility.”
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The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.