A ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1969, gungun jami'an sojoji 'yan tawaye da Muammar Gaddafi ya jagoranta sun kaddamar da juyin mulki a kan Sarki Idris, wanda aka sani da juyin juya halin Al Fateh. An kira Gaddafi a matsayin "Brother Leader and Guide of the Revolution" a cikin bayanan gwamnati da kuma manema labarai na Libya. Motsawa don rage tasirin Italiya, a watan Oktoba na 1970 an kwace duk kadarorin mallakar Italiya kuma an kori al'ummar Italiya mai karfi 12,000 daga Libya tare da ƙaramar al'ummar yahudawan Libya. Ranar ta zama hutu na ƙasa da aka sani da "Ranar Ramuwar Ramuwa".
Shekara ta 1977