Sweden introduced a groundbreaking Freedom of Press Act, becoming the first nation to introduce freedom of speech.
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The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
NASA's Endeavour Space Shuttle was launched through Mission STS-61.
