28 April: This Day In Political History

Dictator's Day: Saddam Hussein was born on 28 April 1937 in Tikrit, Iraq; seven years later, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), was executed. In US political history, on this date in 1758, James Monroe (the fifth president) was born; he fundamentally shaped US foreign policy with the Monroe Doctrine. In 1952, the Allied occupation of Japan ended. And four years ago, CBS broadcast photos of prisoners being tortured at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, photos that eventually changed the nature of the rhetoric surrounding the war.