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• 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
• 1899 – Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
• 1945 – American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
• 1951 – President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
• 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs (ceremony pictured) the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

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