1781 British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 pm, ending the US Revolutionary War.
1812 Napoleon Bonaparte and his Grande Armée begin their retreat from Moscow numbering just 100,000 (started campaign with 500,000)
1950 UN forces enter Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.
1951 US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany.
1987 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf.
2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
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