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- 1866 - It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
- 1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
- 1939 - The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI. It was the first bowling association in the U.S. for African-Americans.
- 1940 - France fell to the Germans during World War II.
- 1953 - It was announced by the Soviet Union that they had detonated a hydrogen bomb.
- 1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1968 - The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization.
- 1997 - Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills.
- 1998 - Canada's Supreme Court announced that Quebec could not secede without the federal government's consent.
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