According to an AFP report, Iran hanged a drug trafficker in Sari, Mazandran province, on December 25, 2010 — “after being convicted of keeping, carrying and selling the narcotic drug ‘crack’,” in the words of prosecutor Assadollah Jafari.
On this day..
- 1943: Four Aussie escapees, at the Hotel Tacloban
- 1973: Five for an Afghanistan coup
- 820: Not Michael the Amorian, conquer or die
- 2014: Ismai Khan Sayed, a Pakistani heroin smuggler in Saudi Arabia
- 1553: Pedro de Valdivia, founder of Santiago
- 1204: Alexios V, precipitated Byzantine emperor
- 1017: Eadric Streona, traitorous
- Feast Day of St. Anastasia
- 317 B.C.E.: Philip III Arrhidaeus, who succeeded Alexander the Great
- 1683: Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, for the Battle of Vienna
- 2006: Three old men and a taxi driver
- 1989: Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu