doc: reflect new require('events') behaviour

We don't need to do `require('events').EventEmitter` any longer. PR-URL: #975 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Brendan Ashworth <[email protected]>
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 ## Class: events.EventEmitter
 
-To access the EventEmitter class, `require('events').EventEmitter`.
+Use `require('events')` to access the EventEmitter class.
+
+```javascript
+var EventEmitter = require('events');
+```
 
 When an `EventEmitter` instance experiences an error, the typical action is
 to emit an `'error'` event.  Error events are treated as a special case in