2003Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
1956Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires
2007The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.
1990South African President De Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid