This April 1865 image provided by the Library of Congress
shows Federal troops in front of the Appomattox Court
House near the time of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, in Appomattox,
VA. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

On March 29, 1865, the final campaign of the Civil War began in
Virginia when Union troops under General Ulysses S. Grant
moved against the Confederate trenches around Petersburg.
General Robert E. Lee’s outnumbered Rebels were soon forced
to evacuate the city and begin a desperate race west.

 
Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender (left) to Union Lt. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant.

March 29, 1973: Two months after the signing of the Vietnam
peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops left South
Vietnam as Hanoi freed the remaining American prisoners
of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year
intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon,
some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees
remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what
looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North
Vietnam.

Reba Nell McEntire is a country music singer and actress. She is
often referred to as "the Queen of Country” and has sold more
than 75 million records worldwide. Since the 1970s, McEntire has
placed over 100 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart,
25 of which reached number one.

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and
one of the most highly regarded American generals of World War
II, died in Washington, D.C. of congestive heart failure at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., at age 78.