Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
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The world's oldest message in a bottle was found.
Athlete Tom O'Hara smashed a world record by running 1 mile in just 3 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his 'slave name' of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.
