Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union.
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Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was listed as the richest person on Forbes.
Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
The world's oldest message in a bottle was found.
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his 'slave name' of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.
