Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 17 August 2003

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Goodyear collapsed when he heard his daughter had died.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 17th of August 2003 22 years ago The King of Spades Was Played
62-year-old military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service Ali Hassan al-Majid, originally Alī Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī aka Chemical Ali is arrested by American forces in Basra, Basra Governorate, Iraq. al-Majid had been listed as the fifth most-wanted man in Iraq, shown as the King of Spades in the deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.