Today is Tuesday, December 30th, the 364th day of 2008. There is 1 day left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
In 1460, the Duke of York is defeated and killed by Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield.
In 1861, Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879.
In 1906,the All India Muslim League party was founded in Dhaka, that subsequently laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
In 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was constituted.
In 1924, Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galaxies.
In 1943, freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose raised the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
In 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging. Saddam was hanged on the first day of Eid ul-Adha, inspite of his wish to be shot (which he felt would be more dignified). He was executed at "Camp Justice," an Iraqi army base in Kadhimiya, a neighborhood of northeast Baghdad
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