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"It
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1932 October 3
- Iraq becomes an independent state.
1958
July 14 - The monarchy is overthrown in a military
coup led by Brig Abd-al-Karim Qassim and
Col Abd-al-Salam Muhammad Arif. Iraq is declared a republic
and Qasim becomes prime minister.
1959-1963
- Saddam Hussein, 22-year old Ba'th Party member, flees Baghdad
for Damascus and
Cairo after involvement in an assassination attempt against
Qasim. Cairo is then center of the Nasserite
Pan-Arab ideology girding the Ba'th Party.
1963
February 8 - Qasim is ousted in a coup led by the
Arab Socialist Ba'th Party (ASBP). Six months
of chaos follow, prompting another military coup.
1963 November 18 - The Ba'th
government is overthrown by Arif and a group of military officers.
5000-6000 Iraqis are executed in backlash against communism.
1964-1966 Saddam Hussein jailed as a member of the Ba'th Party.
1966 April 17 -
President Arif is killed in a helicopter crash on April 13 and
succeeded by his elder
brother, Maj-Gen Abd-al-Rahman Muhamad Arif.
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1968 July 17
- A Ba'th-led coup ousts Arif and Gen Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr becomes
president.
Saddam Hussein, relative of Bakr, emerges as Vice President,
deputy head of the Revolution
Command Council (RCC), and chief interlocutor with the Kurds.
1970 March 11 -
RCC and Mullah Mustafa Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP),
sign a peace agreement.
1972
- Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC). Iran and
Iraq are the region's major
oil-producers and vie for dominance in the Gulf.
1973
- In the wake of an attempted coup against Bakr, Saddam Hussein
consolidates his control of
the internal security services and management of oil resources.
1974 - Iraq grants
limited autonomy to the Kurds, in accord with the 1970 agreement,
but the KDP
rejects it. KDP rebellion fails as Iran withdraws support in
exchange for possession of disputed Shatt
al-Arab islet between Iraq and Iran.
1975
March - At a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algiers,
Iraq and Iran sign a treaty ending their border disputes.
1979 January 16 - Islamic
Revolution ousts the Shah of Iran. Ayatollah Khomeini, who had
lived in
Iraq from 1964-1978, returns to Tehran in February.
1979 July 16 - President
Al-Bakr resigns and is succeeded by Vice President Saddam Hussein.
Within
days, Saddam executes at least 20 potential rivals, members
of the Ba'th Party and military.
1979 September - Military skirmishes and propaganda
war increase between Iraq and Iran.
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1980 September 4
- Iran shells Iraqi border towns. On September 17 Iraq abrogates
the 1975 treaty with Iran.
1980 September 22 - Iraq
attacks Iranian airbases.
1980 September 23 - Iran
bombs Iraqi military and economic targets.
1981 June 7 - Israel attacks
an Iraqi nuclear research center at Tuwaythah near Baghdad.
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