1492-Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name "Juana" 1538-The first university in the Americas, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established in Santo Domingo 1746-The Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao are demolished by an earthquake, killing 18,000 1831-British scientist Michael Faraday demonstrates his dynamo invention, an electric generator 1886-The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City 1919-The Volstead Act is passed by Congress, establishing a nationwide ban on alcohol, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto 1924-Miner M. de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child," in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus