Macy’s Department Store first opened.
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Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Prince Regent George Augustus Frederick purchased the first copy of Jane Austen's novel ''Sense and Sensibility.”
Maxentius became a Roman emperor, until his death exactly six years later.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded in the Dominican Republic.
