Modern Era · Middle East · Politics
1958
Iraqi revolution
July 14, 1958
Iraqi army officers led by Abdul Karim Qasim overthrew the pro-Western Hashemite monarchy in a bloody coup. King Faisal II and his family were shot in the palace garden. The pro-Western regime in Baghdad was gone. Iraq would pass through a series of coups before finally ending up, in 1968, under the Baath Party that produced Saddam Hussein.
In context
Also in 1958 (4 other events on record)
- Great Leap Forward begins in China · East Asia · Politics
- Integrated circuit demonstrated · North America · Technology
- De Gaulle returns to power in France · Europe · Politics
- United Arab Republic formed · Middle East · Politics
Before and after in Middle East
- Before: October 29, 1956: Suez Crisis
- After: June 5, 1967: Six-Day War
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.