Billboard magazine started ranking sales of recorded songs.
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Queen Elizabeth II of England declared the 30th Olympics opened in London, UK.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
Tony Hawk landed the first '900' on a skateboard at the 5th annual X Games in San Francisco.
The musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman premiered on Broadway at Orpheum Theater, New York, US.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.