Published: Friday, June 1, 2007. 1  The Moon's increasing distance has to do with a physics concept called angular momentum, which is a body's resistance to a change in its rotation or orbit. If we look at the Earth-Moon system, we find two sources of angular momentum â Earth, which rotates once every 24 hours, and the Moon, which orbits the Earth every 27.3 days. The Moon's increasing distance has to do with a physics concept called angular momentum, which is a body's resistance to a change in its rotation or orbit.
Saddam is hanged at 6 a.m. on 30 December. His body is buried the next day at al-Awja, his home village. Comment: There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a ruthless killer and that his regime was dictatorial, murderous and repugnant. Up to 450,000 Iraqi and 730,000 Iranian combatants died during the Iran-Iraq War.
Execution of Saddam Hussein. The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on Saturday, 30 December, 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.