Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
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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.
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.
