Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
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The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
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.
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
