Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
Sweden introduced a groundbreaking Freedom of Press Act, becoming the first nation to introduce freedom of speech.
Charles Dickens gave his first public reading.
