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Saddam Hussein

Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003

12 dated entries naming Saddam Hussein, drawn from 8 separate years between 1937 CE and 2006 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1937April 28 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)source
  • 1979July 22 – 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge: Iraqi president Saddam Hussein arranges the arrest and later execution of nearly seventy members of his ruling Ba'ath Party.source
  • 1988February 23 – Start of Anfal campaign, a genocidal counterinsurgency operation within the Iran–Iraq War carried out by Ba'athist Iraqi forces led by Ali Hassan al-Majid on the orders of President Saddam Hussein that will kill between 50,000 and 182,000 Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan.source
  • 1995July – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.source
  • 1998February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and United Kingdom.source

21st century

  • 2003December 13 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, is captured in the small town of Ad-Dawr by the U.S. Army.source
  • 2003February 15 – Millions of people worldwide take part in massive anti-war protests in anticipation of the United States and its allies invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime.source
  • 2003July 22 – Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.source
  • 2004July 1 – Saddam Hussein appears in court for his charges to be read.source
  • 2006December 30 – Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was executed by hanging.source
  • 2006December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 69, Iraqi President (1979–2003), execution by hanging.source
  • 2006November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is later executed by hanging for crimes against humanity on December 30.source

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