1865: The American Civil War ends as Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
1667: First ever public art exhibition opens in Paris.
1682: French explorer Robert La Salle reaches the Mississippi River.
1939: Singer Marian Anderson performs a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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