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On June 7, 1494 the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed.

The agreement between the governments of Spain and Portugal divided the 'New World' into resources and land claimed by the nations, according to National Geographic.

The divide was illustrated by a north-to-south line of demarcation in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of north-western African. It was a region then controlled by the Portuguese.

The demarcation line was moved in 1506 by about 1500 kilometres. This enabled Portugal to lay claim to what is now known as Brazil.

The treaty failed to take into account the millions of people living in certain communities in the Americas.

It ultimately led to cultures such as the Inca and Aztec being conquered and colonised by other European powers.

The BBC made a triumphant return to air on June 7, 1946 after being off air for seven years during the Second World War.

In this photo, taken in April, Roland Price, a studio manager at the BBC television station supervises actor Keniston Reeves during a closed circuit rehearsal.

Elvis Presley's home "Graceland" was opened to the public for the first time forty years ago.

Elvis' wife Priscilla Presley was the one to open the gates to the Memphis estate.

However, the bathroom where Elvis died five years earlier was kept off-limits.

On June 7, 1929 The Lateran Treaty was ratified, which brought Vatican City into existence.

The Vatican today is considered the heart of the Catholic Church.

The Vatican is where the acting Pope resides when he's in Rome, and is home to troves of iconic art, relics, and architecture.

Astronaut Edward White became the first American to perform a spacewalk after exiting the Gemini 4 capsule on June 3, 1965.

The astronaut first used a hand-held gun to propel himself to the end of an eight-metre tether and back to the ship three times.

The fuel ran out after three minutes and he had to twist his body and pull on the tether to get back to the ship.

The gold-plated helmet visor is designed to protect Mr White from the sun's unfiltered rays.

Mr White (far left) was one of the predecessors who lay the foundation for man walking on the moon four years later in 1969.

In this image, Mr White uses a "space gun" to propel himself away from Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965.

Concerned that it would be swamped at the summer box office by Smokey and the Bandit, 20^th Century Fox released Star Wars in theatres on May 25, 1977.

Originally opening in 32 theatres in the US, the film proved an enormous hit.

Within three weeks, 20^th Century Fox's stock price had doubled.

Director George Lucas had made the film after he was denied the rights to the sci-fi superhero Flash Gordon.

So he made his own space opera, borrowing heavily from the plot of Akira Kurosawa's samurai film The Hidden Fortress.

Star Wars would eventually sell six times as many tickets as Smokey and the Bandit.

Save for Lucas, very few people showed any faith in the movie pre-release.

Lucas forewent his director's fee in exchange for merchandising rights, a deal which made the filmmaker incredibly wealthy.

Despite thinking the movie was "fairy tale rubbish", actor Alec Guinness negotiated a percentage of every Star Wars movie in perpetuity.

To this day, Guinness's estate is still getting a cut of every Star Wars movie.

US athlete Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied a fourth in the space of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935.

In less than an hour Owens competed in the 100-yard dash, long jump, 220-yard sprint and 220-yard low hurdles at the college event in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The following year Owens would win four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, humiliating the host nation's leader Adolf Hitler, who had for years been touting the athletic supremacy of white Aryans.

Tennessee teacher John Scopes is indicted on May 25, 1925, on accusations of teaching human evolution in school.

The case created a nationwide media storm, with three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan leading the prosecution.

In the absence of air conditioning, some of the trial was held outdoors because of the intense heat inside.

Scopes was found guilty and fined US$100, though the verdict was overturned on a technicality.

Playwright Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency" on May 25, 1895.

Wilde had pressed charges against the Marquess of Queensberry months earlier after he had described him as a "posing Sodomite".

But the Marquess successfully argued in court that Wilde had been in gay relationships, a crime in the UK.

Wilde spent two years doing hard labour in Pentonville Prison, walking a treadmill and picking apart the fibres in old ropes.

On May 24, 1930, British aviator and pioneer Amy Johnson became the first woman to complete a solo flight from England to Australia.

Ms Johnson travelled a total of 18,000 kilometres one way from Croydon in Surrey to Darwin.

Almost 11 years later, Ms Johnson would go missing after an aircraft she was flying for the Air Transport Auxiliary reportedly ran out of fuel mid-flight.

On May 24, 1994, four men were jailed for bombing New York's World Trade Centre, killing six and injuring over a thousand.

The attack was planned by a group of terrorists including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin, and Ahmed Ajaj.

Among the victims were a seven-month pregnant woman and a man who had just parked in the garage.

Abouhalima, Ajaj, Ayyad, and Salameh were charged with conspiracy, explosive destruction of property, and interstate transportation of explosives.

Three years later, Yousef and Eyad Ismoil were also convicted.

Yousef's plan was that the North Tower would fall onto the South Tower, collapsing them both. The tower did not collapse, but the garage was severely damaged in the explosion.

The trial heard Yousef wanted the smoke to remain in the tower, smothering people inside, killing them slowly.

On May 24, 1626, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit officially purchased the island of Manhattan from its traditional owners.

Minuit traded 60 guilder (about $34) and goods with Seyseys, chief of the Canarsees people in exchange for the land.

Historians say the traditional landowners were eager to make the transaction as most of the land was controlled by rival tribe, the Weckquaesgeeks people.

The 60 guilder figure was documented in official papers drawn up by Dutch States-General and member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen.

Manhattan is now the most densely populated, yet smallest borough in New York City.

On May 23, 1992, Italy's most prominent anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were killed by the Corleonesi gang with a half-tonne bomb near Capaci, Sicily.

The murder is known in Italy as a crime that marked a turning point in the fight against the Mafia.