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1994 Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees
1993 Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee 1991 Communist coup is crushed in U.S.S.R. in 2 days 1991 Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev 1991 Failed military coup in Mali 1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested 1989 Comores coup under Bob Benard 1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails 1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup 1989 Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay 1988 Coup in Haiti 1988 Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees 1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails 1987 Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies 1987 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic 1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka 1987 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution 1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka 1986 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines 1986 Military coup in Lesotho under general-major Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan 1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup 1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab 1984 Palace coup in Mauritania 1984 Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya 1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia 1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup 1983 Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup 1983 Maurice Bishop, premier of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup 1983 Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard 1983 Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees 1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees 1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname 1981 Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles 1981 Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees 1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker 1981 Spanish coup under Lt-colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails 1980 Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution 1980 Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees 1980 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey 1980 Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president 1980 William R Tolbert, Jr., Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup 1980 Miltary coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname 1980 Coup ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron of Suriname 1979 Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees 1979 Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees 1979 Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I 1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin 1978 Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees 1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees 1978 Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup 1977 Coup in Seychelles, National Day 1976 Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup 1976 Failed coup in Niger 1976 General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup 1976 Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves 1975 Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed 1975 Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53 1975 Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman 1975 Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired 1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar 1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails 1974 Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) 1974 Coup in East-Timor under UDT 1974 Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees 1974 Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed 1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos 1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 1973 Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees 1973 Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana 1972 Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup 1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana 1971 Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out 1971 Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry 1971 Sudan military coup under Major Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees 1971 Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada 1970 Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup 1970 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees 1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day) 1969 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia 1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup 1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup 1968 Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees 1968 Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted 1968 Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru 1968 Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees 1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II 1967 Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier 1967 Coup in Togo 1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared 1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad 1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana 1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government 1966 Military coup by Col Jean-Bedel Bokassa in Central African Republic 1965 Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown 1965 Failed coup under Lieutenant Colonel Untung in Indonesia 1965 Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired 1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic 1965 South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh 1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier 1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted 1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam 1963 Failed military coup in Syria 1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria 1962 Failed coup in Brunei 1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees 1961 Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon 1961 Military coup in El Salvador 1960 Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails 1960 Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo 1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey 1959 Patrick Bruel, Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist, Coup of Sirocco 1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq 1957 Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat 1957 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed) 1956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra 1955 Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam 1954 Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay 1953 Marcel R Zeeuw, Suriname Lt-colonel, coup 1982 1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia 1952 Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba 1951 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria 1949 Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria 1947 Military coup discovered in France 1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup 1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war 1943 Military coup in Bolivia 1943 Jean-Jacques Annaud, director, Bear, Black and White, Coup de Tete 1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government 1941 Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul 1938 Fascist coup in Romania, fails 1936 Military coup in Japan 1935 Coup under General Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy 1935 Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador 1934 Failed nazi coup in Austria 1934 Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria 1934 Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia 1933 Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista 1933 Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup 1932 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri 1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand 1932 Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile 1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland 1932 Fascist coup in the Memel territory 1931 Right-radical coup of Dr. Pfrimer fails in Austria 1929 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia 1926 Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed 1926 Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal 1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup 1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal 1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared 1924 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup) 1923 Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense, 1991 coup 1923 With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera 1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails 1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39 1913 Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup 1908 Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup 1899 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist, Coup of Trafalgar 1881 Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid" 1851 President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France 1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII 1812 Failed coup against emperor Napoleon 1798 Coup of Midderigh 1794 Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris 1730 Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees 1660 Denmark king Frederik III makes coup 1571 Catholic coup in Scotland |
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