1833 – The first municipally supported public library in the U.S. was established in Peterborough, NH.
1865 – Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 troops at Appomattox, Virginia.
1872 – S.R. Percy of New York City received a patent for dried milk.
1881 – After a one day trial, Billy the Kid was found guilty of murdering the Lincoln County, New México sheriff and sentenced to hang.
1905 – The first aerial ferry bridge went into operation in Duluth, Minnesota.
1939 – Opera singer Marion Anderson sung on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1940 – Nazi Germany invaded Norway, which had been neutral during the start of World War II.
German officers stand in front of the National Theater in Oslo, 1940.
1942 – Major General Edward P. King and 78,000 troops (66,000 Filipinos and 12,000 Americans) surrendered to the Japanese in Bataan, Philippines, thus beginning the brutal “Bataan Death March.”
1959 – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduced America’s first astronauts to the press: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shephard and Donald Slayton.
1965 – Major-league baseball played its first indoor game. President Lyndon B. Johnson attended the opening of the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The indoor stadium was termed the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World.’
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