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December 13th, 2003
"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!" US forces captured Iraq's __1__ Saddam Hussein, nearly nine months after the fall of Bagdad. Saddam is caught while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit. In 2006, Saddam was sentenced to death and __2__ of Iraqi Shi'ites during his regime.

1981
Authorities in Communist Poland __3__ a mass Solidarity labor movement. Martial Law formally ends two years later. Communist rule in Poland __4__ by the end of the decade.

1950
End of a bitter battle in the Korean War as American-led troops break out of the Chosin Reservoir area. They __5__ an attempt by vastly larger force of North Korean and Chinese troops to __6__ them.

1862
Union forces suffer a major defeat to Confederate troops at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

And 1925
Actor Dick Van Dyke, star of one of early TV's classic shows. He's born in West Plains, Missouri.

Today in History, December 13th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
ousted dictator executed for the slaying impose Martial Law to crackdown crumbles thwart encircle