1987
Black Monday
The stock market crashed on what came to be known as "Black Monday." Stocks dropped a record 508 points, or 22.6%, topping the drops on October 28 and 29 in 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression.
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1781
British General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Va., bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolution.
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1812
French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
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1960
The United States imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.
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1983
The Senate passed a bill (78–22) making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, birthday a public holiday.
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