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April 28
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Biography Of The Day
addm ussein appearing in a courtroom after his capture, Baghdad, Iraq.
Saddam Hussein appearing in a courtroom after his capture, Baghdad, Iraq.
Karen Ballard—AP/Wide World Photos		Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein, who as president of Iraq (1979–2003) angered and outraged the international community with invasions of neighbouring Iran and Kuwait and who was unseated by the United States, was born this day in 1937.

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On This Day In History
Benito Mussolini.
Benito Mussolini.
H. Roger-Viollet		1945: Mussolini executed
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, “Il Duce,” who, after a series of military misadventures, became unpopular even among his fellow Fascists, was captured while trying to flee Italy and was executed on this day in 1945.

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2004:A hooded Iraqi prisoner handcuffed to a railing at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq, 2004.American television network CBS broadcast photographs depicting harsh treatment of Iraqi inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison in U.S.-occupied Iraq, initiating a national debate on torture and the Geneva Conventions.
1969:Charles de Gaulle, 1967.French leader Charles de Gaulle resigned his presidency.
1952:The Allied occupation of Japan came to an end after seven years of rapid social and economic change following the country's surrender in World War II.
1878:Lionel Barrymore (left, seated) and Lew Ayres in Young Dr. Kildare, 1938.American actor Lionel Barrymore was born in Philadelphia.
1789:Clark Gable (left) and Charles Laughton (right) in Mutiny on the Bounty, …Captain William Bligh of the British ship Bounty and 18 of his men were set adrift by mutinous sailors led by the master's mate Fletcher Christian.
1758:James Monroe, oil sketch by E.O. Sully, 1836, after a contemporary portrait by Thomas Sully; in …James Monroe, who was the fifth president of the United States (1817–25) and who asserted a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy in the Monroe Doctrine, was born.
1442:King Edward IV of England was born in Rouen, France.

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