Confederate General Robert E. Lee ended his campaign at The Battle of Appomattox Court House.
He and his 26,765 troops surrendered to US Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant. The war didn’t officially end until May 8th of the same year.
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President John F. Kennedy granted Winston Churchill the first-ever honorary US citizenship.
The Republic of Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
Dutch ecologists reported that wolves were living in the Netherlands again for the first time in 140 years.
Pope Constantine died.
The American sitcom 'Parks and Recreation' debuted on NBC.
