​Add these to the This Week in History section of your composition book:

• Dec. 13, 2003 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces during the Iraq War

• Dec. 14, 1911 – Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first person to reach the South Pole

• Dec. 14, 1960 – The convention establishing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is signed by 18 European countries, the United States, and Canada

• Dec. 16, 1773 – American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor to protest a tax on tea

• Dec. 16, 1944 – German forces attempt to push through Allied lines in the Ardennes, beginning the Battle of the Bulge