Timeline of Events
| 1922 | British High Commissioner Sir Percy Cox establishes the borders of Iraq and Kuwait. |
| 1927 | British explorers make the largest oil strike in the world to date at Kirkuk in northern Iraq. |
| 1932 | Iraq gains its independence from British colonial rule. |
| 1937 | Saddam Hussein is born in a village near Tikrit, Iraq. |
| 1961 ... |
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