On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia after four years of Civil War in the United States.

In 1939, Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after the Black singer was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

In 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton.

In 2003, Baghdad fell to American troops after six days of fighting.

In 2018, federal agents raided the office of President Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, seizing records on matters including a $130,000 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.