TODAY IN HISTORY

1776

British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.

1890

English mystery writer Agatha Christie was born in Torquay.

1935

The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.

1963

Four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.

1972

A federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.

1981

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve the Supreme Court nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor.

2001

President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops to get ready for war and braced Americans for a long, difficult assault against terrorists to avenge the Sept. 11attack. Beleaguered Afghans streamed out of Kabul, fearing a U.S. military strike against Taliban rulers harboring Osama bin Laden.