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  • candidate for Prime Minister following the coup that overthrew Mossadeq on ... for his willingness to take part in this coup; indeed, he may have instigated ...
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  • CIA) Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup d’état against Iran's ... the Cold War, the legacy of the Mosaddeq coup makes the task of spreading ...
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  • of the royal house of Judah. He ended his coup by gathering the priests of ... the prophet Hosea appears to denounce his coup and to predict that God would ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... The coup was precipitated when Mosaddeq nationalized Iran's oil ...
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  • Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (May 26, 1908 - June 12, 1976) was a Vietnamese ... In May 1956, Diem recalled him to Saigon to help deal with the Hoa ...
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  • Obafemi Awolowo (March 6, 1909 - May 9, 1987) was a Nigerian politician ... Awolowo died in his home town, Ikenné on May 9, 1987. ==Politics== ...
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  • dictator. He was ousted in a military coup on June 9, 1923. He attempted ... In the coup on May 19, 1934, the Zveno military organization established ...
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  • In May 1943, as a colonel, Perón was a significant figure in the ... Around the same time, in May 1955, Perón signed a contract with an ...
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  • the Cuban Senate in 1948. He later staged a coup d'etat when it became ... until he reenlisted in the Rural Guard at the end of May 1923. ...
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  • South Korean government through a bloodless coup in 1961 after the resignation ... ;Coup d'état Seizing the moment, Major Gen. Park Chung-hee led ...
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  • with other hard-liners in an attempted coup against Nikita Krushchev. ... the vice-chairman of the Yuzovka Soviet. In May 1917, he became the leader ...
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  • of China claimed he had attempted a coup and condemned him as a traitor. ... E. Salisbury's The Long March, by May 1935, Lin Biao was dissatisfied ...
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  • Tribal tensions increased after a military coup in 1966 which resulted in ... Claims of electoral fraud were the ostensible reason for a military ...
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  • power. Nigeria has some 300 clan groups. He may also have wanted to protect ... Bellow was assassinated during a January 15, 1966, military coup which ...
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  • the country's best-known exports may be the weather disturbances ... and 1976. Daddah was ousted in a bloodless coup on July 10, 1978. ...
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  • November) and a cooler, dry season (November to May). The terrain is ... As many as three million slaves may have been taken from the region ...
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  • Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 – November 5, 1796 ... == Coup d'etat == The marriage was unsuccessful. It may not have ...
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  • htm Mali] National Anthems.info. Retrieved May 29, 2021. ... Keïta was the victim of a coup in 1968, bringing to power young officers ...
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  • government followed the general election of May 10, 1948. The first National ... held the second parliamentary elections on May 30, 1950, and gave the majority ...
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  • ment_20050822.shtml A Very British Coup,] BBC Radio 4. Retrieved July ... Mosaddeq was removed from power on August 19, 1953, in a coup d'état ...
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  • but in 1982, was accused of plotting a coup d'état after South African ... charismatic leader. In some respects, Nkomo may have been out-of-touch. On ...
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  • In May, 1879, 463 indentured laborers arrived from India—the first ... became Prime Minister for a month, until, on May 14, Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni ...
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  • numerically a smaller group, the Tutsis may have been able to gain ascendance ... gained its independence in 1962, and in May 1965, the first post-independence ...
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  • who ruled from 661 until the Abbasid coup of 750 C.E. However, a branch ... of Sunni, too, supported the Abbasid coup on the basis that the Ummayads ...
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  • Bhumibol, crowned King of Thailand on May 5, 1950 at the Royal Palace ... celebrates the date of his coronation, May 5, as Coronation Day, a public ...
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  • There were rumors surrounding the coup that toppled him from power ... against the Dutch. The communist-backed coup attempt by elements of the ...
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  • of the Moscow Helsinki Group. Founded on May 12, 1976, to monitor the Soviet ... of the Russian parliament during the August Coup and supported Boris Yeltsin ...
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  • rampant corruption resulted in a military coup. Col. Seyni Kountché and ... the winner. When his efforts to justify his coup and subsequent questionable ...
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  • that Nyerere had troops stationed in Uganda may have contributed to a his ... arrested and detained without charge. In May the Buganda regional Parliament ...
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  • The Law on Cooperatives, enacted in May 1988, was perhaps the most ... Hardliners in the Soviet leadership attempted a coup d'état ...
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  • Congress of Soviets following the Bolshevik coup d'etat in which the Provisional ... Russia to its original war aims on May 2-4, Kerensky became the Minister ...
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  • fell on his knees and replied: "May it please your Majesty, I ... * Act against Dissolving the Long Parliament without its own Consent ...
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  • 1974 when the monarchy was overthrown in a coup d'etat. Earlier the Aksumite ... famine between 1972 and 1974 resulted in a Marxist-coup. ...
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  • a "revolution" or any other name may be seen as arbitrary, and ... a "revolution" or any other name may be arbitrary, and is determined ...
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  • wanted to restore her own regency through a coup d'état. Plans of the ... Beiyang military commanders, fabricated a coup d'état in Beijing and ...
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  • 1959, he had a Turkish Vice-President. This may have angered those who still ... On May 3, 1974, Makarios sent the Greek government a letter that identified ...
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  • was injured in an automobile accident on May 23, 1986, rivals within Barre ... years of civilian government, a military coup in 1969 brought Siad Barre ...
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  • which lasts approximately four months (May/June to September), and the ... in 1960. The country's first military coup occurred in 1966; it returned ...
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  • and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems. Like ... older) brothers, joining with Pittacus in a coup d'état which toppled ...
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  • details of Epaminondas' life and works may be found in Plutarch's ... preparing young men inside Thebes for a coup attempt. In 379 B.C.E., a ...
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  • and failed foreign policy. He killed many coup-plotters and political enemies ... This traditional portrayal may be wrong: like Richard II of England ...
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  • the crash site noted that the plane "may have strayed into restricted ... the Kargil War. Two months later, an army coup led by Pervez Musharraf deposed ...
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  • tribes on the northern frontier. In 1170, a coup d'état occurred, brought ... faction that plotted an unsuccessful coup against the king. A high-ranking ...
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  • The Eritrean War of Independence (September 1, 1961 – May 29, 1991 ... In 1974, Emperor Haile Selassie was ousted in a coup. The new Ethiopian ...
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  • Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan GCMG, MBE, Hilal-i-Jurat, NPk, (May ... deposed Mirza on October 27 in a bloodless coup, sending Generals Azam, Burki ...
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  • are the driest, coolest months. March to May are the hottest months, with ... the 1974 socialist-inspired military coup in Portugal. At the time ...
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  • Government and consolidate power in a coup d'etat. That the Bolsheviks ... century. The nation that was born in a coup d'etat ironically ended ...
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  • Warren Christopher, giving testimony before the U.S. Congress on May ... the Sultan's attempted counter-coup, the liberal element of the ...
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  • Morton A. Kaplan (May 9, 1921 – September 26, 2017) was Distinguished ... Morton Kaplan was born in Philadelphia on May 9, 1921. He attended ...
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  • (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), and hot and wet (June to ... of dissatisfied officers staged a military coup, putting General Robert Guéi ...
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  • 47th of the Republic)(7th since the 1926 coup d'état)(1st of the Estado ... After the 28th May 1926 coup d'état, he briefly joined José ...
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  • the Grand Alliance on mainland Europe, and may be seen as the last successful ... to resist what they saw as an illegal coup by force of arms. An uprising ...
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  • running unopposed. In 1982, an attempted coup failed and Moi took the opportunity ... The presence of this succession mechanism may have led to dangerous political ...
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  • heads of African states. While his policies may have proved disastrous for ... Tanganyika to form Tanzania, after a 1964 coup in Zanzibar toppled Jamshid ...
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  • a much smaller area. The Plains lifestyle may never return to its former ... Plains Indian warriors won prestige, known as "counting coup ...
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  • Moussa Dadis Camara seized control in a coup, declaring himself head of ... protests over transparency of upcoming May elections. The protests were ...
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  • He led the opposition to an attempted coup by communist hardliners opposed ... as a democrat and defying the August coup attempt of 1991 by hard-line ...
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  • her father until her family was killed in a coup d'état on August 15 ... and three brothers were assassinated in a coup d'etat by a section of ...
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  • in 1919. After an attempted anti-Communist coup, Kun unleashed a reprisal ... and was several times involved in duels. In May 1913, Kun married a music ...
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  • Democratic rule ended in 1962 with a military coup d'état led ... non-military president since the military coup of 1962. On April 6, 2016 ...
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  • Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état on July 5, 1977 ... Zia may have genuinely wanted to stabilize his country. However, in ...
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  • Relations cooled between the two sides after the coup in 1972, and ... Abdul Rahman Suwar ad-Dahhab mounted a coup. Among the first acts of the ...
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  • Tansu Penbe Çiller, Her Excellency Prof. Dr. (May 24, 1946 - ) was ... After the military coup of 1980, which intended to clean up government ...
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  • constitutional monarchy until the coup on September 19, 2006. ... warm, and cloudy southwest monsoon from mid-May to September, as well as a ...
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  • are concerned that a very violent eruption may occur in the near future. ... in the middle eighties (Fahrenheit). From May to September southerly winds ...
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  • in 1962. Amin sincerely believed that his coup enjoyed popular support, while ... seized power in a 1971 Ugandan military coup on 25 January 1971, while ...
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  • of emperors: those who won power through a coup and those "born to the ... Porphyrites.] Saudi Aramco World. Retrieved May 18, 2007. ...
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  • eroded the rule of law in Showa Japan. In May of the same year, during an ... Prime Minister Okada survived the attempted coup by hiding in a storage shed ...
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  • material. The novel was both a financial coup for its author and yet, nevertheless ... All links retrieved May 5, 2023. *[http://www.wilkiecollins.com/ The ...
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  • in Gujarat). Coming to power in a palace coup as the dewan, he secured the ... by army troops for allegedly plotting a coup against Bhutto, who appointed ...
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  • (1935-1985) to seize power in bloodless coup. Conté became president, ... Traoré led a failed coup attempt against Conté in July 1985, and ...
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  • native people. Following the 1973 military coup, it was used as a place to ... Phillip Parker King left Plymouth in May 1826 in command of the British ...
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  • turn, was overthrown two years later in a coup by Gen. André Kolingba, who ... buildings in Bangui in an unsuccessful coup attempt in May 2001. Patassé ...
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  • that the name "Venezuela" may have evolved from a native ... far east. Most precipitation falls between May and November (the rainy season ...
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  • light plane. Forty years of military junta, coup d'état and guerrilla ... in the deserts and low valleys between May and September; the higher ...
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  • While such may have been the political and economic realities, the ... Athaliah, then carried out a bloody coup in Jerusalem, thus becoming ...
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  • Kind of Genius." Irish Independent, May 8, 2004.. Generally, Yevtushenko ... the Russian Federation during the hardline coup that sought to oust Gorbachev ...
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  • He arrived in London in May 1945, intending to study at the LSE. After ... an attempt to end the Vietnam War when the coup against his regime took place ...
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  • A socialist government seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977 and ... southeast trade winds blow regularly from May to November. March and April ...
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  • KGB's resources to aid the August 1991 coup attempt to overthrow Soviet ... Union’s most important intelligence coup, detailed information concerning ...
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  • was the Turkish military response against a coup which had been staged by the ... immediate enosis. Makarios described the coup which replaced him as "An ...
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  • military toppled M'Ba in a bloodless coup on February 18, 1964. French ... RSDG drafted a provisional constitution in May 1990 that provided a basic ...
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  • #039;s Poniatowski Bridge during the [[May Coup|May 1926 Coup d'État ... to power in a coup d'état (the May Coup), supported by the Polish ...
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  • January) and the long wet season (February- May). Total mean annual rainfall ... In May 1965, the first post-independence elections were held. The ...
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  • A military coup in 1966 ushered in an Igbo ruler who tried to unite ... from the military's wrath. By May 1967, the Eastern Region had ...
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  • of the Portuguese Armed Forces staged a coup in Lisbon in April 1974, overthrowing ... the massacre. Salazar, after a pro U.S. coup failed to depose him, consolidated ...
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  • In May or June 1560, the powerful neighboring kanrei, Imagawa Yoshimoto ... also speculate that Hashiba or his retainers may have wanted to put Oda in ...
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  • Gorbachev's visit to the People's Republic of China on May ... The first elections were actually held on May 20, 1990. ...
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  • Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE, (May 18, 1919 – February 21, ... was arrested when her husband attempted a coup against the Panamanian government ...
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  • At home, she crushed an attempted military coup in 1962. In 1964, she entered ... of cutting colonial apron strings. She may not, in her enthusiasm to ...
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  • 12, 1974, when the Marxist Derg staged a coup d'état against Emperor ... by the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. This may qualify as a war that had ...
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  • while repressing any opposition, which may include rival political parties ... are susceptible to collapse through a coup or a revolution. ...
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  • However, the newspaper was suppressed during a Prussian coup d'état ... London Blue Plaques.] Retrieved May 6, 2008. ===Later years=== ...
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  • authoritarian and dictatorial, prompting a coup d'état in March 1979 ... 19, 1983, during a hardline military coup that brought a new pro-Soviet/Cuban ...
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  • officers in 1975. The exact reason for the coup remains unclear, though Rahman ... . The country's Buddhist monasteries may be among the oldest in the world. ...
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  • Indalecio Prieto condemned the left's May Day marches, clenched fists ... The rising was intended to be a swift coup d'etat, but was botched; ...
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  • several Italian ones, and planned a coup to coincide with an Italian ... Nasser and the Free Officers seized on this situation to launch a ...
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  • agricultural cycle: the rainy season from May to November, followed by the ... July 1974. The leaders of the unsuccessful coup were tried and executed, and ...
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  • however, make Canute forgive Ulf for his coup. At a banquet in Roskilde ... king of England, although this view may in part be attributable to ...
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  • of the Chinese, staged a bloody palace coup on December 4, 1884 with the ... kai's command ended the Progressives coup, killing a handful of Progressive ...
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