Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is April 9. The Civil War ended on this date in 1865 when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Grant wrote the terms of surrender, which ended four years of bloodshed that had cost an estimated 500,000 lives. The formal surrender took place three days later. Advertisement It was on this date in 1992 -- two years after U.S. troops invaded Panama to get him -- that a federal jury in Miami convicted deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega on cocaine trafficking charges. British statesman Winston Churchill became an honorary U.S. citizen by an act of Congress on this date in 1963. The U.S. government declared the crisis at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was over on this date in 1979. And, gosh, were we relieved to hear that! And it was on this date in 1987 that the National Park Service voted against removing Beale Street in Memphis from the list of National Landmarks. Advertisement We now return you to the present, already in progress.
