Macy’s Department Store first opened.
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The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
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.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
