Historical Events
Event of Interest
Confederate General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant (US Civil War)
Robert E. Lee
Famous Birthdays
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-American electrical engineer (development of alternating current), born in Breslau, Province of Silesia, Prussia (d. 1923)
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff, German general during World War I, born in Kruszewnia, Prussia (d. 1937)
Erich Ludendorff
Famous Deaths
- Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32