The first US telecast was made from an airplane flying over New York City.
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Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
Athlete Tom O'Hara smashed a world record by running 1 mile in just 3 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was listed as the richest person on Forbes.
Oreos first went on sale.