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A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government. |
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The forces of President Louis Napolean Bonaparte crush a coup d'etat in France.
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A Ba'thist coup ousts Iraq President Abd-al-Salam Muhammed Arif. General Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr becomes the new President. This day is currently Iraq's National Holiday, known as the Anniversary of the Revolution.
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Fulgencio Batista, a political force in Cuba since 1934, stages a successful military coup overthrowing Carlos Prio Socarras who was elected in 1948. |
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President Guillermo Lara leaves Ecuador after a military coup. |
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A violent military coup succeeds in overthrowing the government of South Yemen. |
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A military coup led by General Eduardo Lonardi ends the Juan Perón regime in Argentina. |
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Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day: Military coup in Syria. |
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Portugal's President Dr. Marcello Caetano is overthrown by the army's MFA (Armed Forces Movement) in a near bloodless coup. |
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Afghanistan President Mohammed Daoud Khan is assassinated in a coup led by procommunist rebels. |
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General Nimeiri, supported by the communists, achieves a Military coup d'Etat in Sudan. |
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In a Military coup in Sudan, the Assembly and the Government are dissolved, political parties and trade unions banned, their leaders imprisoned. Newspapers cannot be published. |
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In response to a planned coup by Aaron Burr, Jefferson declares martial law in New Orleans. |
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Pervez Musharraf becomes head of state/chief executive of Pakistan via a bloodless coup d'état, placing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif under house arrest. |
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Communists headed by Kryuchkov initiate a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. |
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Boris Yeltsin stands defiantly on an armored personnel carrier and challenges the hard-liner coup against Soviet President Gorbachev. This will be his defining moment as a defender of democracy the high of his political career. |
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Alberto Fujimori mounts a self-coup (now called a fujigolpe in his honor), a coup d'etat against his own government. |
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Alberto Fujimori seeks temporary refuge in the Japanese Embassy in Peru during a failed military coup led by General Salinas. |
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In the Coup d'Etat of 18 Brumaire, General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrows the French Directory and replaces it with the French Consulate, marking the end of the French Revolution and begins the Napoleonic Era. |
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Tunisia's president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and is replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. |
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While Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is at the UN in New York, Thai soldiers under the leadership of Lieutenant General Sonthi Boonyaratglin enter Government House and tanks move into position around the building. |
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Thailand's new leaders ban all meetings and other activities by political parties, two days after taking power in a military coup. Coup leader Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin has proposed a year-long transitional period as a constitution is drafted, but opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva challenges this ... |
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