Gaddafi, born in 1942, celebrated on 01 September 2010, 41 years in  power as the Arab world's longest-serving, but most enigmatic head of  state. He formed in 1963 the Free Officers Movement, a group of  revolutionary army officers, which overthrew 01 September 1969 King  Idris of Libya and proclaimed Libya, in the name of 'freedom, socialism  and unity,' Socialist People's Jamahiriya.
In 1969Post 1969 picture of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ((AFP/Getty Images)
 Post 1969 picture of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L)  shaking hands in Tripoli with the President of Mauritania (1961-78),  Mokhtar Ould Daddah (AFP/Getty Images)
Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) and Egyptian President  Gamal Abdul Nasser (R, 1918-70) arrive together in December 1969 in  Rabat prior the Arab Summit Conference (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1972 
President of Uganda Idi Amin Dada (2nd-L) poses with some of the  Organization of African Unity (OUA, from left) Syrian President Hafez  al-Assad, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Lybian leader Muammar  Kadhafi in June 1972 in Kampala during an OUA summit. Idi Amin's reign  of terror lasted from 1971 when he seized power from Milton Obote, to 13  April 1979, when Tanzanian troops and exiled Ugandans stormed Kampala  and removed him from power (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1973
 Picture dated July 1973 of Libyan Head of State  Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) joking in Tripoli with a group of British  hippies(AFP/Getty Images).
In 1975 Taken  04 August 1975 in Kampala of Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar   Gaddafi during the summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) waves to the crowd in  June 1975 in Tripoli followed Commandant Abdussaman Jalloud (R), the  number two of the Libyan regime (AFP/Getty Images).
Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (C) riding a horse in November 1975 in Tripoli (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1976 
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (C), leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya, and  President of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brejnev (1906-1982), General  Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (3rd-L) smile while members of  delegations of both countries sign agreements. Brezhnev and Gaddafi are  surrounded by (from left) Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign  minister, Nikolay Viktorivich Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the  Supreme Soviet, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin, Chairman of the  Council of Ministers on December, 1976 in Moscow, Russia (AFP/Getty  Images).
In 1985
  Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) and his wife Suffiya  (R) wave to the crowd 03 December 1985 in Dakar, followed by President  of Senegal Abdou Diouf (2nd row-R) upon their arrival for three-day  official visit to Senegal (AFP/Getty Images).
Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (C) reviews troops 03  December 1985 in Dakar upon his arrival for three-day official visit to  Senegal. (AFP/Getty Images) .
In 1986
Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi addresses journalists 02  February 1986 in Tripoli during a meeting of 'The High Command of The  Revolutionary Forces of The Arab Nation'(AFP/Getty Images).
In 1988
 Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali (R) and Libyan leader Muammar  Gaddafi listen to the national anthems 04 February 1988 at Tunis  airport upon Kadhafi arrival for an official visit in Tunisia, the first  for more than ten years (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1989
Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi prays 21 July 1989 in  Bamako during six-African-nation summit to resolve a territorial dispute  between Libya and Chad (AFP/Getty Images) .
In 1990
South African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela (l) and  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hug each other 18 May 1990 upon Mandela  arrival to Tripoli (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1994
  Libyan Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi wipes his face during a  military parade 01 September 1994 in Tripoli for the celebration of the  25th anniversary of his arrival in power (AFP/Getty Images).
In 1996
Yasser Arafat (L), Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority,  greets Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi on June 22, 1996 during the 19th  Arab Summit in Cairo, Egypt. The two Arab leaders met for the first  time since the Gulf war in 1991 (AFP/Getty Images) .
In 1999
Egyptians greet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, during his visit to the  city of Fayum, some 100 km south of Cairo, 08 March 1999. Khadafi  arrived in Egypt 05 March 1999 for a visit that could last a week, in a  bid to finalize a deal on a handover by Tripoli of two suspects in the  Lockerbie airliner bombing. (AFP/Getty Images).
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi salutes his troops participating 07  September 1999 in a military parade in Tripoli to mark the 30th  anniversary of the Libyan Revolution that brought Gaddafi to  power(AFP/Getty Images) .
In 2001
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi flashes the V-sign March 28, 2001 at the  end of the two-day Arab Summit in Amman, Jordan. The first ordinary Arab  summit since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 closed having failed to  win Iraq's approval on a resolution to improve its ties with Kuwait and  the international community (Newsmakers).
In 2002
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi performs a prayer inside Gurdabiya Dam  after the opening ceremony of the dam which is a phase of Libya's 'Great  Man-Made River' water project some 30 kms east of the city of Syrte 07  March 2002 (AFP/Getty Images) .
In 2004
French President Jacques Chirac (L) stands with Libyan President Muammar  Gaddafi (R) on November 24, 2004 in Tripoli, Lybia. Chirac was in Libya  for a two day official visit marking the first visit by a French head  of state since Libya won independence from Italy in 1951 (Getty Images).
Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) meets with Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar Al  Gaddafi on May 29, 2007 in Sirte, Libya. Blair was on a five day visit  to meet with African leaders as he prepared to stand down as Britain's  Prime Minister on June 27, 2007 (Getty Images) 
In 2008
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) stands next to Libyan leader  Muammar Qadaffi during the signing of agreements between the two  countries April 17, 2008 in Tripoli, Libya. Putin was in Libya for a  two-day official visit to rebuild Russian-Libyan relations (Getty  Images).
In 2009
Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi stands during his meeting with Italy's  President Giorgio Napolitano (not pictured) at Rome's Quirinale  presidential palace on June 10, 2009 during Gaddafi's first visit to  Italy (AFP/Getty Images) .
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (L) shakes hands with US president Barack  Obama during the G8 summit on July 9, 2009 in L'Aquila, Italy. The talks  are being held close to the site of a devastating earthquake in April  of this year and leaders are expected to discuss climate change, global  security and the global recession (Getty Images).
 In this handout image supplied by the Palestinan Press Office (PPO),  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) greets Libyan leader Muammar  Gaddafi on August 31, 2009 in Tripoli, Libya (Getty Images). 
In 2010
In this handout image supplied by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO),  Foreign Leaders pose for a portrait including Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas, King Abdullah II, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and  Prince Felipe of Spain on the first day of the Arab Summit in Sirte on  March 27, 2010 in Libya (Getty Images).
In 22-02-2011
A Libyan girl holds a poster during a protest against Libyan leader  Moamer Kadhafi near the Libyan-Arabic school and Consulate in Athens on  February 22, 2011. A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said he would remain in  Libya as head of its revolution, and that he had no official position  from which to resign. (AFP/Getty Images) .

A picture of a screen taken from the television on February 22, 2011  shows Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gesturing while delivering a  nationwide address in Tripoli. Gaddafi says he will stay in Libya as  head of revolution as world powers mobilised to try to halt the bloody  showdprotesters own between and his security forces suspected of 'crimes  against humanity' to keep him in power. (AFP/Getty Images).
This day is the end of a great man life, Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader's hometown and final stronghold. 
"We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed," Mahmoud Jibril, the de facto Libyan prime minister, told reporters on Thursday in Tripoli, the capital. 
Crowds took to the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi, the eastern city that spearheaded the uprising against Gaddafi's 42-year rule in February, to celebrate the news, with some firing guns and waving Libya's new flag.
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