At the age of 69

• 30-December-2006 : Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad.
• 05-November-2006 : Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and 2 of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging, after an Iraqi court finds them guilty of crimes against humanity.
• 12-January-2005 : Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President. {{Month3{{Month311550}} Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
• 11-June-1988 : Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
• 25-September-1982 : In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
• 30-May-1961 : Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longestlongestrunning dictatorship in Latin American history.
• 16-May-1960 : Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus ending the 1960 Paris summit.
• 23-March-1960 : Nikita Khrushchev meets Charles De Gaulle in Paris.
• 22-January-1960 : In France, President Charles de Gaulle fires Jacques Massu, commandercommanderininchief for the French troops in Algeria.
• 23-July-1939 : Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader from India writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him "My friend", requesting to prevent any possible war.