1932 BBC began experimental regular television broadcasts 1945 Ho Chi Minh led a successful coup as Vietnam conflict begins until ending in 1975

1192 Minamoto Yoritomo became Seii Tai Shogun the ruler of Japan 1888 American Inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1597 the 1st Dutch East india Company ship returned from the Far East to the Netherlands 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the end of the American Civil War

1909 Indianapolis Speedway home of the famous Indianapolis 500 opened 1942 World War II over 4000 Canadian and British soldiers were killed, wounded or captured in Dieppe France

1737 the first public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibit at the Louvre in Paris 1926 the weather map was televised for the first time ever

1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel 1945 Sukarno and Mohammed declare the Dutch East Indies or today Indonesia independence from the Nettherlands