April 28, 1937
Born in Tikrit, Iraq.

1956
Joined the Arab Baath Socialist Party.

1959
Attempted assassination of Iraqi Prime Minister Qasim.
Arrested for six-months.

1960
Sentenced to death.
Escaped to Syria and later to Egypt.

1962-63
Studied law in Cairo, but left it incomplete.

1963
Elected member of Baath Party in Iraq.

1964
Arrested for charges of rebelling against the regime.

September 1966
Elected Deputy Secretary General of Baath Party Leadership in Iraq, while in prison.

1967
Escaped from Prison.

July 1968
Coup against Iraq’s President and overthrew the regime.

1969
Elected the Vice-chairman of the Revolution Command Council.

1972
Nationalized oil companies.

1977
Elected Assistant Secretary General of National Pan-Arab Leadership of Baath Party.

July 16, 1979
Elected as the Chairman of RCC and as the President of Iraq.

1980
Attacked the oil-reserves of Iran, and initiated the Iran-Iraq war.

1988
Cease-fire between Iran and Iraq.

August 2, 1990
Seized Kuwait.

January 16, 1991
America led air troops began bombing Baghdad.

February 1991
The Persian Gulf War ended by declaration of cease-fire by US President George Bush.

1996
Accepted the ‘Oil for Food’ program, proposed by the UN Security Council.

December 13, 2003
captured by American army from a bunker near Tikrit.

December 30, 2006
Executed exactly after three years and 17 days of his capture.