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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US forces pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad to symbolize the end of the Iraqi president's brutal reign.
NASA publicly announced the names of the first 7 American astronauts.
Dutch ecologists reported that wolves were living in the Netherlands again for the first time in 140 years.
President John F. Kennedy granted Winston Churchill the first-ever honorary US citizenship.
Great Britain held The Queen Mother's funeral in London, England.
