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Saddam Hussein is executed; Fire in Chicago kills 600 people; Vladimir Lenin proclaims the establishment of the Soviet Union;

President Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" is published;

The Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is first published; Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo is executed; Mormon religion founder Joseph Smith, Jr. Is born;

Uprising topples Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu; Richard Reid tries to set off explosives in his shoes on flight from Paris to Miami; French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason;

George Washington dies at age 67; Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his group reach South Pole; Leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia sign an internationally-brokered peace treaty; Baseball's Roger Maris dies at age 51.