DECEMBER 13
1937:Imperial Japanese troops capture the city of Nanking, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, beginning a brutal six-week long onslaught against the Chinese population. An estimated 300,000 civilians and disarmed Chinese soldiers will be murdered over the next few months, and tens of thousands of women raped, in the massacre commonly known as the "Rape of Nanking."
1989: South African President F.W. de Klerk meets with jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela for the first time, at de Klerk's presidential residence in Cape Town, to discuss bringing an end to apartheid in South Africa. Mandela will be released from prison two months later, after serving 27 years.
2003: American soldiers discover former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit, nine months after the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Hussein will be found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal and executed on Dec. 30, 2006.
1989: South African President F.W. de Klerk meets with jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela for the first time, at de Klerk's presidential residence in Cape Town, to discuss bringing an end to apartheid in South Africa. Mandela will be released from prison two months later, after serving 27 years.
2003: American soldiers discover former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit, nine months after the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Hussein will be found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal and executed on Dec. 30, 2006.
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