BITS OF HISTORY
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1916: Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant, mystic, and favourite of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, was killed.
1968: Trygve Lie, Norwegian statesman and first secretary-general of the United Nations (1946-52), died.
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2006: Saddam Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity.
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