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December 30

3 sourced moments from December 30 in history: The U.S. signed the Gadsden Purchase treaty with Mexico (1853); The Soviet Union was officially established (1922); and Saddam Hussein was executed (2006).

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3 things happened on December 30

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2006 History · War & Conflict

Saddam Hussein was executed

After a fourteen-month trial over a single village massacre, Iraq's deposed dictator was hanged at dawn on a sacred holiday.

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1922 History · Modern

The Soviet Union was officially established

On the last days of 1922, four republics signed a Treaty of Union that bound them into the USSR — a state that would last nearly seventy years.

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1853 Geography · Borders & Maps

The U.S. signed the Gadsden Purchase treaty with Mexico

A cash-strapped Santa Anna sold a strip of desert that fixed America's southwestern border — and cleared a path for a southern railroad.

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