Overview

• In 2005, Saddam Hussein was put on trial by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its largest daily percentage loss on 'Black Monday' in 1987, dropping by 22.6%.
• British troops under General Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, signaling a pivotal moment in the American Revolution.
• Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in 1960 during a sit-down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta.
• The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City in 1977, completing the flight from Toulouse, France, in under four hours.