1865 Congress passes the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (passes 121-24)
1865 General Robert E. Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies during US Civil War
1943 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad
1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb
1985 South African President P. W. Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence
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