Macy’s Department Store first opened.
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Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.