Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen’s novel “”Sense and Sensibility.”
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Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.