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.
NASA's Endeavour Space Shuttle was launched through Mission STS-61.
The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
The world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction happened in Chicago Pile-1 at the University of Chicago. It was overseen by Enrico Fermi.
The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
