The first US telecast was made from an airplane flying over New York City.
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Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
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.
Felix Hoffmann patented one of the world's most common drugs, Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
Oreos first went on sale.
