{"slug": "saddam-hussein", "label": "Saddam Hussein", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316", "qid": "Q1316", "description": "Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003", "entries": 19, "years": 13, "span": [1937, 2007], "span_label": ["1937 CE", "2007 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Saddam al-Tikriti"], "related": [{"slug": "ba-athist-iraq", "label": "Ba'athist Iraq", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "baghdad", "label": "Baghdad", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "iraq-disarmament-crisis", "label": "Iraq disarmament crisis", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "new-york-city", "label": "New York City", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "basra", "label": "Basra", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iraq", "label": "Iraq", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-germany", "label": "East Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "algiers", "label": "Algiers", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mohammad-reza-pahlavi", "label": "Mohammad Reza Pahlavi", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "opec", "label": "OPEC", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kurds", "label": "Kurds", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 28", "text": "April 28 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#April", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Births › April"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – On Baghdad's al-Rashid Street, President Abd al-Karim Qasim was ambushed on his way to the East German embassy. The five man team, led by future Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, killed Qasim's driver and wounded Qasim. One assassin died and Saddam himself was injured, but escaped to farm.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330597838#October", "title": "1959 in Iraq", "revid": 1330597838, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 - Iran and Iraq announced a settlement in their border dispute, at a meeting of the OPEC nations in Algiers. The Shah of Iran signed on behalf of his nation, while Iraq was represented by Saddam Hussein, an aide to President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and future President of Iraq. The meeting was overseen by Algerian President Houari Boumediene. Iraq agreed to drop claims to half of the Shatt al-Arab, while Iran agreed not to supply weapons to Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1246778320#March", "title": "1975 in Iraq", "revid": 1246778320, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam al-Tikriti, more commonly referred to in the Western press as \"Saddam Hussein\", assumes the presidency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#July", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge: Iraqi president Saddam Hussein arranges the arrest and later execution of nearly seventy members of his ruling Ba'ath Party.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#July", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 23", "text": "February 23 – Start of Anfal campaign, a genocidal counterinsurgency operation within the Iran–Iraq War carried out by Ba'athist Iraqi forces led by Ali Hassan al-Majid on the orders of President Saddam Hussein that will kill between 50,000 and 182,000 Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#February", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July", "text": "July – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372467239#July", "title": "1995", "revid": 1372467239, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and United Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373236679#February", "title": "1998", "revid": 1373236679, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2001, "year_label": "2001 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 11", "text": "September 11 – 2,996 killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Saddam Hussein immediately declares that his government played no part in the attacks. Also that day a U.S. military RQ-1B Predator drone crashed near Basra, Iraq claims to have shot it down.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360481369#September", "title": "2001 in Iraq", "revid": 1360481369, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 15", "text": "February 15 – Millions of people worldwide take part in massive anti-war protests in anticipation of the United States and its allies invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371470479#February", "title": "2003", "revid": 1371470479, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371532081", "title": "Deaths in July 2003", "revid": 1371532081, "section": "Deaths › July"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, is captured in the small town of Ad-Dawr by the U.S. Army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371470479#December", "title": "2003", "revid": 1371470479, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "February 21", "text": "February 21 – The U.S. permits the Red Cross to visit Saddam Hussein for first time since his capture in December.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367047246#February", "title": "2004 in Iraq", "revid": 1367047246, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2004, "year_label": "2004 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Saddam Hussein appears in court for his charges to be read.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373088592#July", "title": "2004", "revid": 1373088592, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2005, "year_label": "2005 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called the former prime minister Iyad Allawi's comments \"nonsense\". Allawi claimed that the human rights abuses in Iraq were as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. Talabani stated that the government was against any form of torture or harming of prisoners.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365972255#November", "title": "2005 in Iraq", "revid": 1365972255, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2006, "year_label": "2006 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is later executed by hanging for crimes against humanity on December 30.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373069605#November", "title": "2006", "revid": 1373069605, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2006, "year_label": "2006 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was executed by hanging.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373069605#December", "title": "2006", "revid": 1373069605, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 2006, "year_label": "2006 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 69, Iraqi President (1979–2003), execution by hanging.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369974506", "title": "Deaths in December 2006", "revid": 1369974506, "section": "Deaths › December"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan (born 1938), Iraqi vice president of Saddam Hussein, executed by hanging", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369041381#Notable_deaths", "title": "2007 in Iraq", "revid": 1369041381, "section": "Notable deaths"}}]}