Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus.
Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
Sweden introduced a groundbreaking Freedom of Press Act, becoming the first nation to introduce freedom of speech.
The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
The world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction happened in Chicago Pile-1 at the University of Chicago. It was overseen by Enrico Fermi.
