After spending nine months on the run, former Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein is captured on December 13, 2003.

Saddam’s downfall began on March 20, 2003, when the United
States led an invasion force into Iraq to topple his government,
which had controlled the country for more than 20 years.

After standing trial, he was executed on December 30, 2006.
Despite a prolonged search, weapons of mass destruction 
were never found in Iraq.

                
ED DANAHUE    
 

              (September 15, 1846 – August 21, 1910)

On this day in 1899, George F. Grant, an African American
dentist from Boston, received US Patent number 638,920
for the world’s first golf tee.

After a 13-year struggle with the bottle, stockbroker Bill Wilson
took his last drink of the hard stuff on this day in 1934.

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On December 10, 1690, a failed attack on Quebec and
subsequent near-mutiny force the Massachusetts Bay
Colony to issue the first paper currency in the history
of the Western Hemisphere.

Sir William Phips
(February 2, 1651 – February 18, 1695)

The envoy of Sir William Phips (right) demanding the
surrender of Quebec, 1690.