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

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

In 1994, 22 people were killed as a terrorist bomb shattered a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv’s shopping district.

In 2005, Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder as his trial opened in his party’s former headquarters in Baghdad.