1865 Congress passes, by vote of 121-24, the 13th Amendment of US Constitution, abolishing slavery in US 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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