Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was tried for his crimes against humanity.
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A remake of the American horror slasher movie ''Halloween” was released starring Jamie Curtis.
Germany's oldest university, and one of the world's oldest surviving universities, The Universität Heidelberg, held a lecture for the first time.
University of California scientists found evidence that life on Earth probably began 4.1 billion years ago.
NASA launched its IBEX satellite from the Stargazer mother ship launch pad above the Marshall Islands.
A bill to recognize Martin Luther King Jr's birthday as a national holiday passed the US Senate.
