Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
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Charles Dickens gave his first public reading.
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Sweden introduced a groundbreaking Freedom of Press Act, becoming the first nation to introduce freedom of speech.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
