1862

During the Civil War, members of Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.

1955

Disneyland opened in Anaheim after its $17 million, yearlong construction; the park drew a million visitors in its first 10 weeks.

1975

An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

2020

Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died at age 80.

– From wire reports