The first US telecast was made from an airplane flying over New York City.
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Oreos first went on sale.
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his 'slave name' of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.
Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.