Biography of Saddam

(1937-2006) President and prime minister of iraq
1979- 2003.
Saddam is married and have 5 children, 2 boys and 3 girls. Uday, the oldest son, was crippled in an assassination attempt, while the other, Qusay held the important positions of controlling both the elite Revolutionary Guards and the Special Forces which secured Saddam's grip on power. Biography
1937 April 28: Born in Auja, near the city of Tikrit, 200 km north of Baghdad, as the son of a landless peasant who died before Saddam's birth.
1956: Joined the Iraqi branch of the Arab Baath Socialist Party .
1958: Sentenced to prison for political activities against the regime, he spends 6 months in prison.
1959: Participates in the coup attempt against prime minister Abdul Karim Qassim, through which he receives a gunshot wound in his leg from the minister's bodyguards.— Escapes to Syria, and then to Egypt.
1960 February 25: Is sentenced to death in absentia.
1962: Finishes his secondary studies in Egypt.
1963 February 8: Returns to Iraq following the Ramadan revolution.— Joins the leadership of the Ba'th Party.
1964 October 14: Is arrested in a campaign against Ba'th Party members.
1966: While still in prison, Saddam is elected Deputy Secretary General of the Ba'th Party.
1967: Escapes from prison.
1968: Active in the two Ba'thist coups, July 17 and 30. Saddam assumes responsibility for internal security.— Graduates from the College of Law.
1969 November 9: Is formally elected Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, in which he forms an alliance with his second cousin, Ahmad Hassan Bakr, the council's chairman.
1972 June 1: Leads the process of nationalizing the oil resources in Iraq, which had been in control by Western companies.
1975: Saddam signs the Algiers Accord with Iran (which among other issues, regulated the border question), an act indicating that his position was stronger than his ally Bakr.
1979 June: Saddam assumes the position of president, after he discovers that Bakr began negotiations on unity between Syria and Iraq. Bakr is stripped of all positions, and put under house arrest.
1980 September 17: Saddam terminates the border agreement of 1975 with Iran, hence provoking a war.— September 22: War starts against Iran, due to disputes over territories occupied by Iran in 1973.
1988: August 8: War against Iran ends, without changes in the borders.
1990 August 2: War against Kuwait resulting in a rapid occupation. This leads to strong international condemnation, and threats of intervention from US-lead forces.
1991 January 17: Intervention by the joint international forces in which more than 30 countries participate. This leads to a quick defeat for Iraq. .
1991. The sanctions soon result in a heavy decline in the Iraqi economy, reduction in food supplies, and poor public health services, but not a weaker position for Saddam.
1998: Saddam removes all personnel stationed in Iraq by the UN to control the military and the military industry.
2002 October 15: Iraq stages a presidential election,candidates than Saddam Hussein,
The election shows 100% of all votes for Saddam.
2003 March: US occupied iraq
2006 November 5: Saddam Hussein is taken to the court, the court sentenced to death by hanging. He appeals, and around Iraq different reactions to the sentence are displayed. December 30: Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging in a Baghdad prison.
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