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1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech. 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio. 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax. 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp.
Andrew Johnson becomes 17th president of the United States on April 15, 1865 The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution takes effect, December 18, 1865 The State of Tennessee becomes the 1st Confederate State readmitted to the Union on July 24, 1866
April 15, 1865 – President Lincoln assassinated; Vice President Johnson becomes the 17th president; April–June 1865 – American Civil War ends as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender; 1865 – Ku Klux Klan founded; 1865 – Slavery abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. 1866 – Civil Rights Act of 1866
1867–1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of railroad tracks in the United States. Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts opens its doors for the first time, becoming the first school for the deaf in the United States to teach deaf children how to communicate with others using the ...
1893 – Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (d. 1971) 1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1967) 1899 – Percy Lavon Julian, African-American chemist and academic (d. 1975) 1900 – Sándor Márai, Hungarian journalist and author (d. 1989)
Recent History Of The United States 1865–1929 (1929) online old survey by scholar; Tindall, George B., and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History (8th ed. 2009), university textbook; White, Richard. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States ...
11 Richard Nixon (1969–1974) 12 ... The following is a list of timelines of United States presidencies. ... History of the United States presidency
Media related to 1865 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons; Booknotes interview with Jay Winik on April 1865: The Month That Saved America, July 29, 2001. "1865". Timeline. Digital Public Library of America. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014.