The first US telecast was made from an airplane flying over New York City.
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Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his 'slave name' of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
The world's oldest message in a bottle was found.
Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.
