Fw: On This Day in History (April 09): The Princes in the Tower, the Ear that Started a War and the South Surrenders
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On This Day in History
April 09
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? , aged 12, succeeds his father as King of England. He is never crowned and disappears, presumed murdered, after being incarcerated in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard (the "Princes in the Tower")
? British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear is cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, catalyst for a later war between Britain and Spain
? refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
? Confederate General and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to U.S. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War in Northern Virginia
? Hudson's Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
| US troops in a sandstorm during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 |
? Baghdad falls to US forces, ending the , resulting in widespread looting
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On this day a surrender agreement ending the American Civil War was signed in the house of a man who had been driven out of his first home by the hostilities.
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