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unusual facts about The Coup


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1967 Greek coup d'état

U.S. critics of the coup included then-Senator Lee Metcalf, who criticised the Johnson Administration for providing aid to a "military regime of collaborators and Nazi sympathisers." Phillips Talbot, the U.S. ambassador in Athens, disapproved of the coup, complaining that it represented "a rape of democracy", to which Jack Maury, the CIA station chief in Athens, answered, "How can you rape a whore?"

1980 Surinamese coup d'état

President Johan Ferrier was eventually forced out of office in August 1980, and several months after the coup d'état by Bouterse most of the political authority transferred to the military leadership.

2006 Bangkok bombings

Conflict between junta assistant secretary General Saprang Kalayamitr and First Army Region commander and Lt General Prayuth Chan-ocha were cited as a possible causes of the bombings and the coup rumors.

Abdul Rahman Mamudu

During the period immediately after the coup that brought General Yakubu Gowon to power in July 1966, many thousands of Igbos were slaughtered throughout the North, including civilians and army personnel.

Adamou Harouna

After the success of the coup, Chef d'escadron Salou Djibo became Niger's de facto leader as head of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.

Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı

Following the coup d'état of 12 September 1980 led by Kenan Evren, he became one of the cofounders of the Nationalist Democracy Party.

Ali Mroudjaé

Mroudjae became foreign minister after the coup by Bob Denard brought Ahmed Abdallah to power in 1978.

Anos Rebeldes

Following the coup d’etat of the Brazilian Armed Forces over left-wing President João Goulart in 1964, Brazil was governed by a military dictatorship until 1985.

Antoine Izméry

When Aristide, having been elected President, was toppled and forced into exile by the 1991 Haitian coup d'état on September 30, 1991, Izméry founded the KOMEVEB (Komite Mete men pou Verite Blayi) organisation, which attempted to discover and publicise the events surrounding the coup and see the return of democratic government.

Asenaca Caucau

Caucau had expressed sympathy for some of the individuals imprisoned for their involvement in the coup, and had attempted to visit the chief instigator, George Speight at his Nukulau Island prison, later saying that she wanted to pray with him and the prisoners.

Attar Singh

He has attacked Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the coup leader who has since been sworn in as interim Prime Minister of Fiji.

Bulgarian coup d'état of 1923

In several places, the coup met with the opposition of agrarian activists and individual communist volunteers, an event known in Bulgarian historiography as the June Uprising.

Constitution of France

The Girondin constitutional project in process of being adopted before the coup that lead to the Montagnard faction being in control

Cornell Paper

In October 1975, ten years after the incident and after Suharto had become President, the Indonesian government sent a delegation of "military men and government intellectuals", led by intelligence officers Ali Murtopo and Benny Moerdani, to present a complete briefing of the coup and the events leading up to it.

Corrective Revolution

2013 Egyptian coup d'état, the coup plotters initially announced that a Corrective Revolution had occurred.

Coup d'état of Yanaon

Just three days before the coup, the last colonial chief administrator of Yanam, George Sala, was recalled by André Ménard, the then Governor General of Pondicherry.

Coup de glotte

A very resounding condemnation of the coup de glotte as a singing technique was given by Victor Maurel, in a public lecture at the Lyceum Theatre in July 1892.

Eduard Wagner

After the failure of the coup attempt he feared that his arrest by the Gestapo was imminent and that he might be forced to implicate other plotters.

Émile Derlin Zinsou

In his autobiography, Bob Denard has mentioned that Emile Derlin Zinsou was to be reinstated in power in the aftermath of the coup, and that he was in fact waiting on board the mercenaries' plane that fled the country when the coup attempt failed.

Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle

For Pierre Larousse, what the Republic's general had done until the coup of 18 Brumaire was virtuous and glorious, but the coup and the subsequent rule of the consul and emperor were a tyrant's doings.

Gustavo A. Madero

On February 18 the American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, Victoriano Huerta and Félix Díaz signed an agreement cementing the coup d'état, titled the Pact of the Embassy.

Hugh Kindersley, 2nd Baron Kindersley

It was on his recommendation that Major John Howard and D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) were selected to lead the coup de main operation at Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge before the Allied invasion of the Normandy beaches began.

Iliesa Duvuloco

He has refused to comment on allegations made by Maciu Navakasuasua, who was convicted of coup-related offences, that he was a party to the planning of the coup.

Jean Gaspard de Vence

After the coup of Fructidor V-18 of the year was appointed Commander of Toulon arms, took an active part in preparing the fleet for the Egyptian expedition and provided logistical base in Italy, on the island of Malta and in Egypt, May 25, 1799 - Commander of Arms Rochefort.

Jeong Jung-bu

In 998, King Mokjong put military under civilian command, causing the coup d'état of General Gang Jo; in 1014, military officers were not paid because the government had to pay civilian officials first, causing the anger of Generals Choi Jil and Kim Hoon to attempt a failed military rebellion; and later the government even closed the military academy.

Latin America Caudillos

He did not find the leadership of Archduke Maximilian of Austria acceptable and lead the coup in 1876 to overthrow him.

Louie Beltran

It was then that he became notorious for mentioning in a column about the 1987 coup attempt that then President Corazon Aquino had been hiding under the bed during the coup.

Lubang Buaya

Lev, Daniel S. Indonesia 1965: The Year of the Coup Asian Survey, Vol.

Lucien Bonaparte

As president of the Council of Five Hundred — which he removed to the suburban security of Saint-Cloud — Lucien Bonaparte's combination of bravado and disinformation was crucial to the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire (date based on the French Revolutionary Calendar) in which General Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it by the Consulate.

Maciu Navakasuasua

Among other allegations, Navakasuasua has implicated Cabinet Minister Konisi Yabaki in the coup plot, allegations angrily denied by Yabaki.

Miler Magrath

While at court he accused Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley of treason, with the "most indecent and contumelious words", and Lee's cousin, Thomas Lee (a captain in the Irish service who was later hanged for his involvement with the coup attempt of the Earl of Essex), wrote to Cecil seeking the opportunity to meet the charges.

Nguyen Van Nhung

At the end of the coup, Nhung executed Diệm and his brother Ngô Đình Nhu, having shot Colonel Lê Quang Tung, the loyalist commander of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces, into a grave at Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base the day before.

Nigerian Civil War

The coup, despite its failure, was wrongly perceived as having benefited mostly the Igbo because most of the known coup plotters were Igbo.

On the Yankee Station

"The Coup" - After his three-year posting, Morgan Leafy heads from to Nkongsamba to Yaoundé airport only to find on his arrival that there has been a coup.

Paolo Emilio Taviani

After the coup d’état in Chile, Taviani recognised the change that took place in the Italian Communist Party under Enrico Berlinguer.

Park Chung-hee

The KCIA would extend its power to economic and foreign affairs under its first director, retired Colonel Kim Jong-pil; a relative of Park and one of the original planners of the coup.

Public opinion of the 2006 Thai coup d'état

The protest included a political discussion on "Why we must resist the coup", and was organized by the "Dome Daeng (Red Dome)" group of Thammasat University, the "Chula Students for Liberty" group, and students from Mahidol, Ramkhamhaeng and Kasetsart universities and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology.

Radio Haiti-Inter

The station resumed its activity in 1986 after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, but closed again in 1991 after the coup d'état against Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Salvador Allende Monument, Montreal

The monument dedicated to the memory of Salvador Allende was installed in Parc Jean Drapeau, on Île Notre-Dame in Montreal on September 11, 2009, the 36th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile and Salvador Allende's death.

Sandy Hume

Another of the plotters, Majority Leader Dick Armey, scuttled the coup when he learned that Paxon, and not he, would replace Gingrich.

Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

She was fictionally portrayed in Chinese novelist Jin Yong's novel The Deer and the Cauldron in which the young protagonist Wei Xiaobao went to Russia and helped her lead the coup against her half-brother Peter I.

Twilight 2000

Version 2.2, GDW's final edition of the game, was published in 1993 and featured a background in which the KGB's Alpha Group obeyed the coup leaders in the August 1991 Soviet coup attempt and stormed the Russian White House, killing Boris Yeltsin and effectively preserving communist control.

Yugoslav coup d'état

For practical purposes Brigadier General of Military Aviation Borivoje Mirković, Major Živan Knežević of the Yugoslav Royal Guards, and his brother Radoje Knežević all performed leadership roles in the conduct of the coup.

The coup was successful and overthrew the three-member regency: Prince Paul, Dr. Radenko Stanković and Dr. Ivo Perović, as well as the government of Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetković.

There are contradictory claims as to who was the leader of the coup and had managed its execution, coming from air force commander, General Dušan Simović, his deputy Brigadier General Bora Mirković, and Major Živan Knežević.