The following lists events that happened during 1959 in Iraq.

1959
in
Iraq

Decades:
See also:Other events of 1959
List of years in Iraq
iraq flag since 1959 to 1963

Incumbents

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Events

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March

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July

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

August

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September

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  • 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

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December

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  • 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

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References

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  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