Sweden introduced a groundbreaking Freedom of Press Act, becoming the first nation to introduce freedom of speech.
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Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
The 'I Robot' collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov was published by Genome Press in the US.
The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
