Billboard magazine started ranking sales of recorded songs.
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Tobacco arrived in England for the first time.
NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs, the fledgling nation's first federal agency, was established.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
