Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his “slave name” of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
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Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
Felix Hoffmann patented one of the world's most common drugs, Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was listed as the richest person on Forbes.
Oreos first went on sale.
Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
