Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his “slave name” of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
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NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
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.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was listed as the richest person on Forbes.
