1775: US forces of the American Revolution captured Montreal under the command of General Richard Montgomery.
1927: The world’s first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opens between New York and New Jersey.
1956: The Supreme Court declared segregation laws on buses unconstitutional.
1982: Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial is opened in Washington, D.C.
2001: After Northern Alliance forces entered Kabul, Afghanistan, the Taliban abandoned the country’s capital.
