The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.
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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.
Oreos first went on sale.
NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
The Beatles released their single ''Let it Be."
