1781
\nBritish General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Va., bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n
1812
\nFrench troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.<\/p>\n
1960
\nThe United States imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.<\/p>\n
1983
\nThe Senate passed a bill (78\u201322) making Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, birthday a public holiday.<\/p>\n
1987
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar<\/p>\n
1910\u20141995 , American astrophysicist, born. Lahore, India (now Pakistan).<\/p>\n
Thomas Browne<\/p>\n
author and physician (1605)<\/p>\n
Edmund Beecher Wilson<\/p>\n
zoologist (1856)<\/p>\n
Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown<\/p>\n
baseball player (1876)<\/p>\n
Lewis Mumford<\/p>\n
social philosopher (1895)<\/p>\n
Jack Anderson<\/p>\n
newspaper columnist (1922)<\/p>\n
John Lithgow<\/p>\n
actor (1945)<\/p>\n
Philip Pullman<\/p>\n
writer (1946)<\/p>\n
John le Carr<\/p>\n
boxer (1962)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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