Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
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Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.
Oreos first went on sale.
The Beatles released their single ''Let it Be."
NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
Felix Hoffmann patented one of the world's most common drugs, Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
