The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
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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 first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus.
