1881 Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
1918 Germany's supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice.
1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary.
1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 86.
1962 JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected.
1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf of Tonken, 43 die.
1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China.
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