Saddam Hussein was born in a small village near Tikrit and would have been unknown to the world if his uncle had not taken him to Baghdad.
When he was 12 his uncle took him to Baghdad so that he many join military school, but failed to get admission and instead joined the revolutionary Baath party and tried to kill the king and over through the government.
After successfully becoming the ruler of Iraq he made many mistakes such as attack on Iran which killed 1 million people, Kuwait invasion which created rifts between his government and western allies and his attack on Kurd minority also made his government unpopular.
In 2003 USA invaded Iraq and Saddam was arrested near Tikrit in a small bunker hole and was hanged on 30 December 2006.
