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.”
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
English literature classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift was published.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
