15h 47min, apr 14, 1865 y - Lincoln Assassination
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A famous actor and Confederate sympathizer shot President Lincoln in the Ford’s theatre only five days after Robert Lee the Confederate Army General surrendered to the Union Army at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The assassination of president Lincoln efficiently ended the American Civil War.
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15h 47min, apr 14, 1865 y
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~ 159 years ago
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