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Today In History highlights 1968 and earlier events
On this date 1965 General Robert E Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Court House. Also noted are La Salle reaching the Gulf of Mexico in 1682, Peterborough founding the first municipally funded public library in 1833, and Marian Anderson drawing 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in 1922 after being barred from Constitution Hall.
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Associated Press
Robert E. Lee
Northern Virginia
Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox Court House
Virginia
la Salle
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi
Louis the 11Th
Peterborough
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
Marian Anderson
Constitution