1586 Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco back to England from Virginia 1890 Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh shot himself and he died 2 days later

1945 Potsdam Conference the US, China and Britain demand the unconditional surrender of Japan in WWII. The Japanese disregarded the demand 1945 the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki Japan with a plutonium bomb

1907 Korea became a protectorate of Japan 1966 Mao Zedong Chinese Chairman of the Communist Party swan across the Yangtze River

1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu the lost city of the Incas in Peru 1969 Apollo 11 returns to earth after the first moon landing and men walking on the moon

1965 the Beatles ” Help ” is released in the UK 2000 the Tour de France bicycle race declares no winner as Lance Armstrong was disqualified for enhancing drugs

1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews more than 300,000 were sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp 2019 the film ” Avengers Endgame ” overtakes ” Avatar ” afor the most money made ever for a film with US$ 2.9 Billion