TODAY IN HISTORY

On Oct. 19, 1765, the Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, adopted a declaration of rights and liberties, which the British Parliament ignored.

In 1812, French forces

under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.

In 1944, the U.S. Navy began accepting Black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).

In 1960, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a sit-down protest in Atlanta.

In 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 22.6% in value, its biggest daily percentage loss, in what came to be known as “Black Monday.”

In 2005, a defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture as his trial opened in the former headquarters of his Baath Party in Baghdad.