1865

Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free — an event now celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth.

1910

The first-ever Father’s Day in the United States was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. (President Richard Nixon would make it federally recognized through a proclamation in 1972.)

1964

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster.