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On Aug. 20, 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after the fighting had stopped.
In 1918 Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during World War I.
In 1953 the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson signed a nearly $1billion anti-poverty bill.
In 1996 President Bill Clinton approved the first minimum-wage increase in five years.
In 1998 Monica Lewinsky went before a grand jury for a second round of explicit testimony about her White House trysts with Clinton.
In 2000 Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship in a playoff over Bob May, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in one year.
