Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
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Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.
The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.
The world's oldest message in a bottle was found.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was listed as the richest person on Forbes.
