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This Day in History: Robert E. Lee Surrenders
This Day in History:, Robert E.
Lee Surrenders.
April 9, 1865.
Surrounded with no possibility of escape,
the Confederate General surrendered his troops to
Union General Ulysses S.
Grant in Appomattox, VA.
Lee met Grant in full dress attire at 1 p.m.
In the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home.
His surrender ended the U.S. Civil War,
the bloodiest war in American history.
Having known each other from the Mexican War,
the two spoke briefly before Grant wrote out the terms.
As part of the terms, Lee's 28,000 starving troops,
who had been cut off from supplies, would be pardoned
and fed Union rations.
The solemn ceremony ended with Grant telling his officers,
"The war is over.
9 Facts, About Mother's Day.
1. The date changes due to it
being held annually on
May's second Sunday.
May 12th is the scheduled date
for the holiday in 2024.
2. Ancient Greece was one of the
earliest civilizations to honor mothers.
3. According to Reuters, Mother's Day
sees the highest volume of phone calls
than any other day of the year.
4. In 2018, gift totals amounted
to $23 billion according to the
National Retail Federation.
5. Greeting cards are the
most common gift with
152 million being
delivered every year.
6. The idea was started in 1868 by activist
Ann Jarvis, who wanted to bring people together after the Civil War.
7. 1908 was the first year
Mother's Day was
observed in the U.S.
8. It became an official federal holiday
less than a decade later in 1914.
9. Mother's Day is celebrated worldwide
at different times during the year
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This Day in History: , First African-American College Is Chartered.
April 29, 1854.
Ashmun Institute was
established in southern
Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Created by an act of the
Pennsylvania legislature, the
institution was named after Jehudi Ashman.
Ashman was the U.S. agent
who assisted in the preservation
of an African-American colony in
Africa that later became Liberia.
The institution named after
him was initially chartered to
provide theological, scientific and
classical training to African-Americans.
Under its first college
president, John Pym Carter,
Ashmun Institute opened on January 1, 1857.
It was renamed Lincoln University
in 1866 after the end of the U.S. Civil War
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This Day in History: , The Civil War Begins.
April 12, 1861.
Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, SC,
is attacked by Confederate shore batteries
under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard.
After being battered
for 34 straight hours,
U.S. Major Robert Anderson
surrendered the fort.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
called for 75,000 volunteer
soldiers two days later.
He had been in office
for barely more than a month.
South Carolina, a slave state,
had issued an "Ordinance of Secession"
earlier in December, dissolving its ties with the Union.
The following four years of war between
the North and South would be the bloodiest
in American history, resulting in the deaths
of more than 620,000 Confederate and Union soldiers
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Director Alex Garland admits to THR on the red carpet of the Civil War premiere that he feels strange releasing this film during an election year. Plus, he shares his reasoning for paring up California and Texas.
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