What you may not know about Saddam Hussein...a quick summary on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Raghad, the daughter of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, published a scathing blog in which she attacked a “group” in Iraq on the 22nd anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Here is a quick summary of information you may not know about Saddam Hussein on this anniversary: Personal information: Date of birth: April 28, 1937 Date of death: December 30, 2006 Place of birth: Tikrit, Iraq Birth name: Saddam Hussein Abdul Majeed Al-Takriti Father: Hussein Abdel Majeed Mother: Sobha Talfah Al-Masalat Marriages: Nidal Al-Hamdani (1990 - December 30, 2006, his death); Samira Shahbandar (1986 - December 30, 2006, his death); Sajida Khairallah Talfah (1963 - December 30, 2006, his death) Children: With Samira Shahbandar: Ali; With Sajida Khairallah Talfah: Uday; Qusay; Do; Rana; Raghad Religion: Sunni Muslim Education: College of Law, University of Baghdad 1968 Other facts: Saddam Hussein was raised by his mother, her second husband, Ibrahim al-Hassan, and her brother Khairallah Talfah, and Sajida, Hussein’s first wife, was his first cousin, the daughter of his maternal uncle Khairallah Talfah.

Many of Saddam Hussein's family members were part of his regime: his son-in-law, Brigadier General Adnan Khairallah, was Minister of Defense. His brother-in-law, Major General Hussein Kamel, Raghad Hussein's husband, led Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons program, and his brother Colonel Saddam Kamel, Rana Hussein's husband, was in charge of the presidential security forces.

His eldest son, Uday, was president of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, and his younger son, Qusay, was commander of the Internal Security Forces. His half-brother, Busho Ibrahim, was deputy minister of justice.

His career: 1956 - Participated in a failed coup to overthrow King Faisal II and Prime Minister Nouri al-Said. 1957 - Hussein officially joined the Baath Socialist Party.

July 14, 1958 - King Faisal was killed in a coup led by Abdul Karim Qasim. October 1959 - Hussein and others attacked Abdul Karim Qasim's convoy.

The assassination attempt failed and most of the attackers were killed. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser learned of Hussein's exploits and arranged for him to travel to Cairo.

8 February 1963 – Qasim was overthrown and executed, and the Ba'ath Party seized power. The new Ba'ath government was overthrown before the end of the year.

1964-1967 - He was arrested and imprisoned after a change in government. On July 17, 1968, in a bloodless coup, Major General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, of the Baath Party, became the new president of Iraq.

Hussein became Secretary-General and Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. 6 March 1975 - Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, signed a treaty.

Iraq abandoned its claims to the Shatt al-Arab waterway, while Iran agreed to stop its support for the Kurds seeking independence. October 1978 - At the Shah's insistence, Hussein expels Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini from Iraq.

Khomeini had been in exile in Iraq since 1965. 16 July 1979 - Hussein became the fifth president of Iraq with the retirement of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.

1979 - Saddam Hussein expelled 40,000 Shiite Muslims and ordered the execution of Ayatollah Muhammad al-Bakr al-Sadr, an ally of Ayatollah Khomeini, in response to Khomeini's call to overthrow the Sunni-majority Baathist regime. 22 September 1980 - Iraq launched an air attack on Iran.

The war ended in 1988 in a miserable draw, with nearly a million people killed. 1982 - Hussein ordered the destruction of the village of Dujail in northern Iraq, killing more than 140 people.

16 March 1988 - Hussein ordered a poison gas attack on the Kurds in Halabja, northern Iraq. 2 August 1990 - Iraq invaded Kuwait, marking the beginning of the Gulf War.

January 17, 1991 - February 28, 1991 - US and coalition forces launched Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. 15 October 1995 - Hussein was re-elected president.

16 December 1998 - Great Britain and the United States launched air strikes on Iraq. The attack, codenamed Operation Desert Fox, was in response to Iraq's refusal to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors.

January 29, 2002 - US President George W. Bush gave his State of the Union address and described Iraq as part of the "axis of evil." 19 September 2002 - Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri delivered a message to the United Nations from Hussein stating that Iraq was free of chemical, nuclear and biological weapons.

15 October 2002 - Hussein was re-elected to a seven-year term with a full majority of Iraqi votes, according to the Iraqi government. November 2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1441, setting out stringent new weapons inspections and threatening serious consequences if Iraq fails to comply.

Iraq agreed, and within weeks inspectors arrived. February 26, 2003 - CBS aired Dan Rather's interview with Hussein on "60 Minutes 2," in which he debated President Bush via live broadcast via global satellites.

19 March 2003 - The Second Gulf War, codenamed "Operation Iraqi Freedom", began. 13 December 2003 – Hussein was captured in a basement, or “spider hole,” on a farm in Tikrit between 8:00 and 8:30 pm Iraqi time (12:00 and 12:30 pm EST), as part of “Operation Red Dawn.”

July 1, 2004 - Hussein appeared for the first time in court at his indictment hearing, and was charged with a variety of charges, including the invasion of Kuwait and the use of poison gas against the Kurds. July 17, 2005 - The Special Iraqi Court brought the first criminal charges against him, for the 1982 Dujail massacre.

19 October 2005 - Hussein's trial begins in Baghdad. 23 July 2006 - Hussein was transferred to hospital after suffering the effects of a hunger strike, which he began to protest his continued trial.

5 November 2006 – Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for the Dujail massacre. Iraqi law provides for the possibility of automatic appeal against any death sentence.

26 December 2006 - The Appeals Chamber of the Iraqi Supreme Court upheld the death sentence. Iraqi law stipulates that the execution must be carried out within 30 days.

December 30, 2006 - Hussein was executed by hanging in Baghdad a few minutes after 6 a.m. (December 29, 10 p.m. EDT).