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1765
The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.

1781
British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution neared its end.

1812
French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began a retreat from Moscow.

1944
The Navy announced that black women would be allowed into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

1950
United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

1951
President Harry S. Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.

1960
The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba.

1977
The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.

1987
The US stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value - its second biggest percentage drop.

2001
Two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.

2002
A 37-year-old man was seriously wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland, Va., in the latest attack by the Washington-area sniper.

2004
Insurgents in Iraq abducted Margaret Hassan, the local director of CARE International, from her car in Baghdad. (Hassan was later slain by her captors.)

2005
A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture as his trial opened under heavy security in the former headquarters of his Baath Party in Baghdad.

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