Flying over western Baghdad. That's the 14th of July bridge over the Tigris in the center background. July 14th, 1958 was the day the Iraqis overthrew a repressive monarchy in the culmination of a 4 1/2 year revolution. They established a parliamentary government that only lasted until 1963, when the Ba'ath party, led by the military, staged a coup. Saddam would later become the leader of the Ba'ath party.