1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast.
1919 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1940 First major German air raid on Birmingham - about 440 bombers kill 450
1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army.
1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.
1950 US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe.
1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1969 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon.
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