“The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again.”
General Grant spoke those words on this day in 1865 to his troops, after accepting General Lee’s surrender and thus ending the War Between the States.
The earliest event Wiki mentions is “193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans)” while the most recent is “2009 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.“
Other events that happened on this date include:
1682 – La Salle arrives at the Mississippi River. He calls the area “Louisiana” and claims it for France.
1833 – Peterborough, NH opens the nation’s first tax-supported public library.
1959 – NASA introduces the “Mercury Seven”.
2003 – This happens in Baghdad.
Happy Birthday to Hef. What do you get the guy who truly already has it all?