Adolf Hitler’s German military attacked Moscow.
The battle lasted until January 7, 1942, with over half a million Russians killed, missing, injured, or captured.
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English Protestant author William Tyndale published 'The Obedience of a Christian Man' in Antwerp, Belgium.
A team of scientists invented the sports drink Gatorade in a University of Florida lab.
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.
During the American Revolutionary War, John André, a British Army officer, was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
The classic children's book 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' by Beatrix Potter was published in London, England.