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Guatemala
1997 Enrique Peralta Azurdia, milt President of Guatemala in (1963-66), dies

1996 Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of Pres

1996 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (1966-70), dies

1993 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala

1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army

1991 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala

1991 Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala

1990 Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies

1989 U.S. beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala

1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect

1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954

1985 Guatemala adopts constitution

1983 Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees

1983 Reagan ends U.S. arms embargo against Guatemala

1982 General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala

1982 Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees

1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41

1978 Carol Aquino, Miss Guatemala Universe in 1997

1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala and Honduras

1968 John Gordon Mein, U.S. ambassador in Guatemala, dies

1960 Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba

1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300

1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala

1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered

1954 Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala

1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala

1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co

1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53

1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected President of Guatemala

1944 Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala

1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala

1942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, president of Guatemala, 1986-91

1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved

1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union

1915 Hans Namuth, German/US photographer, Todos Santos, Guatemala

1913 Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala, 1951-54, ; overthrown by CIA

1907 Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered

1902 Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die

1899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat, Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67

1871 Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms

1839 Guatemala forms republic

1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ

1817 Juan de la Cruz Moreno Maisonave, Guatemala



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