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** A Soviet-backed communist coup attempt fails in Estonia.
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** While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard leads a military coup against his rule, proclaiming that the emperor's son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, is the new emperor.
** A military coup occurs in Upper Volta ( later Burkina Faso ).
** The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military, leaving a military government in power.
** The military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup.
** A military coup occurs in Nigeria ; General Yakubu Gowon takes over.
** In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d ' état.
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** In Romania, coup leader General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled king Carol II of Romania's aides.
** A military coup in Burma brings General Ne Win to power.
** Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos.
** Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military coup within the Ba ' ath party.
** In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president.
** In Iraq, Prime Minister Arif Abd ar-Razzaq's attempted coup fails.
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