The following lists events that happened during

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until Saddam Hussein statue destruction, his overthrow in 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Ira ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Vice President A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vi ...

: ** Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf **

Taha Yassin Ramadan Taha Yassin Ramadan al-Jazrawi (; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as the vice president of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 and the commander of the Pop ...

** Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri

Events

* 8 January – United States officials admit to using

UNSCOM United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with policies concerning Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War. Between 1991 and 19 ...

to collect intelligence against the Iraqi government. * 19 February – The Second Sadr uprising breaks out in majority Shia cities and neighborhoods in Iraq after a Shia cleric, Muhammad al-Sadr is assassinated in

Najaf Najaf is the capital city of the Najaf Governorate in central Iraq, about 160 km (99 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2024 is about 1.41 million people. It is widely considered amongst the holiest cities of Shia Islam an ...

. * 6 November – A delegation in support of listing the sanctions on Iraq lead by British MP George Galloway arrives in Baghdad. The delegation, which left London using a double-decker bus on September 2, 1999, passed through few countries on its route, raising funds for cancer treatment for Iraqi children and highlighting the humanitarian cost of the sanctions. * 17 December – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284 is adopted, replacing UNSCOM with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission ( UNMOVIC).

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* Eighteen Thousand Iraqis are turned down at the Iraqi-Saudi border and not allowed to perform

Hajj Hajj (; ; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for capable Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetim ...

, due to the UN not releasing Iraqi funds designated for their travel expenses.

Births

* 1 January – Hasan Abdulkareem Jabbar, footballer * 1 January – Ahmed Farhan Mushref, footballer * 18 August – Hussein Ammar Ameen, footballer

Deaths

* 19 February – Muhammad al-Sadr, Shia cleric (b.1943) * 3 August – Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, poet (b.1926) * 3 August – Mohammed Hadid, politician. (b.1907) * 11 October – Rafi Daham al-Tikriti, former director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.(b.1937)

References

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