Macy’s Department Store first opened.
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Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
