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Saturday, 13 December 2025

2006

The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, is announced as extinct.

2004

Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal.

2003

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).

2002

Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.

2001

the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.

2000

The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.

1989

Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.

The last issue of ''Gnistan'' (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden.

1988

Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the UN general assembly in the Austrian city of Geneva after the US authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

1981

General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by ''Solidarity''.

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