The United States Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus.
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The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
The 'I Robot' collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov was published by Genome Press in the US.
Charles Dickens gave his first public reading.
