Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his “slave name” of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
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Oreos first went on sale.
The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.
Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
A circus performer patented the modern trampoline.
NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
