The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
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.
The 'I Robot' collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov was published by Genome Press in the US.
Charles Dickens gave his first public reading.
