Saturday, December 13

Today In Histroy



 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.


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


Malta becomes a republic

 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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