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Dismissal

Iraq · Government / Ba'ath Socialist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1968–1979Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1968

Ahmed Hassan al- Bakr30 July 1968

Baghdad · Government / Ba'ath Socialist Party

The "correctional coup" allows civilian Baathists to become the force behind the coup

1979

Saddam Hussein11 July 1979

Baghdad · Government / Ba'ath Socialist Party

The Revolutionary Command Council decide to replace Bakr

Ahmed Hassan al- BakrJuly 1979

Government / Ba'ath Socialist Party

Stripped of his last title, Deputy Secetaty General of the Ba'ath Socialist Party

Names involved

Ahmed Hassan al- BakrSaddam Hussein

Provenance

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