- Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five
months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
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The body of former President of
South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is flown from Pretoria to the leader's
ancestral village of Qunu, his final resting place
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Malta becomes a republic
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2003
Iraq Saddam Hussein December 13th,
2003 : Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces at a farmhouse in Adwar, near
his hometown of Tikrit.
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