On this day in 1944, the Polish Committee of National Liberation published its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
On this day in 1976, Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
On this day in 2003, Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attacked a compound inIraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.