The Beatles released their single “Let it Be.”
The hit entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #6 and soon found its way to #1.
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The world's oldest message in a bottle was found.
Felix Hoffmann patented one of the world's most common drugs, Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.