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The first Africans to be used as slave labor in the United States arrived at Jamestown.

President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, even though fighting had stopped months earlier.

Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” had its premiere in Moscow, Russia.

America’s first commercial radio station, 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ) began daily broadcasting.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Thousands of police and ARVN troops assaulted Buddhist pagodas in Saigon, Hue and other cities and towns in South Vietnam in response to the many demonstrations held by Buddhist monks. Rioting and demonstrations ensued in the months ahead.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.

The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberation drive of Alexander Dubcek’s regime.