2018
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was listed as the richest person on Forbes.
His net worth reached $112 billion on this day, which put Bill Gates into second place with a net worth of $90 billion.
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2018
The world’s oldest message in a bottle was found.
The bottle was discovered by a couple walking on a beach in Western Australia. Little did they know at the time that it was from around 1886!
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2015
NASA’s Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
This also made the Dawn mission the first to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, as it had already achieved orbit with the giant Vesta asteroid earlier in 2011. The dwarf planet that Dawn reached orbit around was none other than Ceres. Ceres has in the past been labeled both a planet and an asteroid.
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1991
The first computers were affected by the Michelangelo virus, which activated annually on March 6.
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1970
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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1964
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali relinquished his “slave name” of Cassius Clay and joined Islam.
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1964
Athlete Tom O’Hara smashed a world record by running 1 mile in just 3 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
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1945
A circus performer patented the modern trampoline.
The performer was called George Nissan; he was from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
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1940
The first US telecast was made from an airplane flying over New York City.
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1912
Oreos first went on sale.
The cookie was marketed by Nabisco and has become one of America’s bestselling brands of cookies.
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1899
Felix Hoffmann patented one of the world’s most common drugs, Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid).
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1869
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table.
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1521
Portuguese Navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam, Micronesia in the Western Pacific.
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