On this day, Dec. 13…

2003: Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a spider hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of Tikrit.

Also on this day:

1862: Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launch futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; Northern troops, soundly defeated, would withdraw two days later.

Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launch futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; Northern troops, soundly defeated, would withdraw two days later. 1918: President Woodrow Wilson arrives in France, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to visit Europe while in office.

President Woodrow Wilson arrives in France, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to visit Europe while in office. 1928: George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York.

George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York. 1977: An Air Indiana Flight 216, a DC-3 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team on a flight to Nashville, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 29 people on board.

An Air Indiana Flight 216, a DC-3 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team on a flight to Nashville, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 29 people on board. 1978: The Philadelphia Mint begin stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, which would go into circulation the following July.

The Philadelphia Mint begin stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, which would go into circulation the following July. 1981: Authorities in Poland impose martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally would end in 1983.)