1959
in
Iraq

Decades:
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
See also:Other events of 1959
List of years in Iraq
iraq flag since 1959 to 1963

The following lists events that happened during 1959 in Iraq.

Incumbents

Events

March

July

  • July 14 – In Kirkuk, a rally to celebrate the first anniversary of the 1958 revolution degenerated into a three-day-long massacre of ethnic Turks by the Kurds. At least 30 people were killed, and over 100 injured. The event was ultimately referred to as the Kirkuk Massacre.[3] On the same day, Iraq became the first Arab nation to appoint a woman to a ministerial post, with Dr. Naziha ad-Dulaimi becoming Minister of Rural Affairs.[4]

May

  • May 30 – After the calling off of the 1955 Anglo-Iraqi Agreement, the last British troops in Iraq left peacefully.[5]

August

September

  • September 20 – General Nadhim Tabaqchali and 12 other Iraqi officers were executed by a firing squad for their role in the March 1959 Mosul Uprising.[7]

October

December

  • December 18 – Abd al-Karim Qasim declared that the Khūzestān Province of Iran "was part of Iraqi territory". Tensions over the disputed territory finally triggered the Iran–Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988.[9]

Deaths


References

  1. Masʻūd Bārzānī, Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement (1931–1961) (Macmillan, 2003), pp. 213–14
  2. "Iraq Cuts Ties With Baghdad Pact", Oakland Tribune, March 24, 1959, p. 1
  3. Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq (Westview Press, 2004), p34
  4. Gabriel Baer, Population and Society in the Arab East (Routledge, 2003), p. 57
  5. Aryeh Yodfat and Mordechai Abir, In the Direction of the Gulf: The Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf (Routledge, 1977), p. 42
  6. Amos Jenkins Peaslee, International Governmental Organizations (BRILL, 1979), p. 266
  7. "The Colonel's Mistake", Time, September 28, 1959; Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq (Westview Press, 2004), pp. 91–92
  8. Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (Verso, 2002), p. 72
  9. Farhang Rajaee, The Iran–Iraq War (University Press of Florida, 1993), pp. 111–112
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