Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
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The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
The 'I Robot' collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov was published by Genome Press in the US.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
