The first US telecast was made from an airplane flying over New York City.
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Oreos first went on sale.
Athlete Tom O'Hara smashed a world record by running 1 mile in just 3 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
Felix Hoffmann patented one of the world's most common drugs, Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
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.
