* 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

Abu al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī was born in Isfahan, Persia, but spent his youth and made his early studies in Baghdad, Iraq.

* Baghdad College, a high school, Baghdad, Iraq

The Round city of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq

The thirteen year sanction against Iraq prevented much trade between Havana and Baghdad.

Image: CAMPDAVIDIRAQ. jpg | From Camp David, Vice President Dick Cheney and members of the Interagency Team on Iraq participate in a video teleconference with President George W. Bush in Baghdad, Iraq.

* 2009 – Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

* Al-Ma ' mun 786 – 833, Baghdad ( Iraq / Mesopotamia )

According to Popular Mechanics, " The common sponge was used in ancient Greece as a gas mask ..." An early type of rudimentary gas mask was invented in the 9th century by the Banu Musa brothers in Baghdad, Iraq.

" The Islamic Abbasid caliphs gathered many classic works of antiquity and had them translated into Arabic within the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, Iraq.

In May 2006, during the Iraq War, the smoldering wreckage of a U. S. Army HMMWV burns on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq after destroyed by an insurgent car bomb.

Conservative think-tanks in Washington had for years been urging regime change in Baghdad, but until the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, official US policy was to simply keep Iraq complying with UN sanctions.

The salinity is reflected in the large lake in central Iraq, southwest of Baghdad, known as Bahr al Milh ( Sea of Salt ).

The Tigris also rises in Turkey but is significantly augmented by several rivers in Iraq, the most important of which are the Khabur, the Great Zab, the Little Zab, and the Adhaim, all of which join the Tigris above Baghdad, and the Diyala, which joins it about thirty-six kilometers below the city.

Kuwait made several representations to the Iraqis during the war to fix the border once and for all but Baghdad repeatedly demurred, claiming that the issue is a potentially divisive one that could inflame nationalist sentiment inside Iraq.

More than 100 armed attacks on polling places took place, killing at least 44 people ( including nine suicide bombers ) across Iraq, including at least 20 in Baghdad.

Business storefront signs in downtown Baghdad, Iraq in April 2005.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

* 2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1, 199 people.

* 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.

* 2003 – U. S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the in 1985.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

* 2003 – U. S. troops capture Baghdad ; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

Immediately, family members and friends went to search for the illusive dervish – and in March brought Bahá ' u ' lláh back to Baghdad.

* 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

* 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided " smart bombs " destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad.

Furthermore, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ( 1201 – 1274 ), an astronomer and mathematician from Baghdad, authored the Treasury of Astronomy, a remarkably accurate table of planetary movements that reformed the existing planetary model of Roman astronomer Ptolemy by describing a uniform circular motion of all planets in their orbits.

Kaf HaChaim on Orach Chayim and parts of Yoreh De ' ah, by the Sephardi sage Yaakov Chaim Sofer ( Baghdad and Jerusalem, 1870 – 1939 ) is similar in scope, authority and approach to the Mishnah Berurah.

The Ben Ish Chai by Yosef Chaim ( Baghdad, 1832 – 1909 ) is a corresponding Sephardi work.

* 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others.

* 2003 – 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U. S .- led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.

* 1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.

* 762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.

* 2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.

* 2007 – U. S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq ; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.

* 1917 – World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.

* 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

In June 2011, it was announced that planning had begun for a new high-speed rail line between Baghdad and Basra, with a memorandum of understanding with Alstom having been signed.

In June 2008, the Iraqi government announced that the United Arab Emirates would send an ambassador to Baghdad within a few days.

This announcement was made during a surprise visit by the United Arab Emirates ' Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Baghdad on 5 June 2008.

On 26 May 2006, Italian foreign minister Massimo D ' Alema announced that the Italian forces would be reduced to 1, 600 by June ; Italian participation in the military operations in Iraq was concluded by the end of 2006, with full withdrawal of Italian military personnel except for a small group of about 30 soldiers engaged in providing security for the Italian embassy in Baghdad, and about 87 soldiers stationing in bases in the Persian Gulf ( but not in Iraqi territory ).

Finally, he returned across the mountains to Baghdad, arriving there in June 1327.

The U. S. launched a missile attack aimed at Iraq's intelligence headquarters in Baghdad 26 June 1993, citing evidence of repeated Iraqi violations of the " no fly zones " imposed after the Gulf War and for incursions into Kuwait.

In June 2008, the Iraqi government announced that the United Arab Emirates would send an ambassador to Baghdad within a few days.

This announcement was made during a surprise visit by the United Arab Emirates ' Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Baghdad on 5 June 2008.

The embassy left Baghdad on June 21, 921 ( Islamic Calendar: 11 Safar 309 ).

* In June 2011, EgyptAir announced the launch of flights connecting Cairo International Airport to Baghdad from 27 August 2011.

* In June 2011, Emirates again announced the launch of flights connecting Dubai International Airport to Baghdad from 13 November 2011.

* In March 2012, Qatar Airways announced that they will launch flights to Baghdad beginning in June 2012.

On June 15, 2003, the corps formed Combined Joint Task Force 7, based in Baghdad, and continued military operations to pacify the remainder of Iraq, rebuild the country, and create democratic institutions.

Iraqi Airways operated the first domestic commercial scheduled service since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime from Baghdad to Basra, with 100 passengers in a Boeing 727-200, on 4 June 2005.

In June 2004, Osama Kashmoula became the interim Governor of the province and in September of the same year he was assassinated en route to Baghdad.

As the British advanced on the capital, al-Husseini is said to have exerted himself in helping to organize the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad, which erupted in June 1941, following the Iraqi defeat and the collapse of Rashid Ali's government.

Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude KCB, CMG, DSO ( 24 June 1864 – 18 November 1917 ) was a British commander, most famous for his efforts in Mesopotamia during World War I and for conquering Baghdad in 1917.

On 1 June, the Regent returned to Baghdad and his government was restored.

After graduation, he worked for the Baghdad office of a Beirut, Lebanon, architectural consultancy and as an occasional interpreter for foreign journalists before and during the invasion of Iraq, when he become a successful English-language blogger under the name Salam Pax and a contributor to The Guardian beginning from 4 June 2003.

Subsequent entries discussed the chaotic postwar economy, and a June 1, 2003, post appeared to celebrate an anarchist effort, centered in the western Al-Adel Neighborhood of Baghdad, to provide free Internet access to all of Iraq.

* Salam Pax, " Baghdad Blogger ," The Guardian, 4 June 2003.

" However, it did not achieve widespread use until a New York Times article of June 10, 2003 popularised the term in a report on " a new U. S. effort to quell nascent armed resistance in Sunni Muslim-dominated areas north and west of Baghdad an area known as the ' Sunni triangle '.

* Baghdad, Iraq ( closed June 2008 )

At least one exception to this rule has been recorded when, in June 2005, Sagal made an " executive ruling " in favor of then-major Robert Bateman, who was participating as the celebrity from his station in Baghdad, Iraq.