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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.
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** Gabonese president Leon M ' ba is toppled by a military coup and his archrival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
** A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
** A military coup in Syria ousts the president.
** General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.
** An anti-Axis coup d ' état in Yugoslavia forces Prince Paul into exile ; 17-year-old King Peter II assumes power.
** The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d ' état attempt which lasts 5 days.
** Samuel Kanyon Doe takes over Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
** Cable 243: In the wake of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the Kennedy administration orders the US Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in South Vietnam, opening the way towards a coup against Diem.
** In Panama, a military coup d ' état, led by Col. Boris Martinez and Col. Omar Torrijos, overthrows the democratically elected ( but highly controversial ) government of President Arnulfo Arias.
** Colonel Joseph Mobutu takes power in Republic of the Congo via a military coup.
** 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 Soviet-backed communist coup attempt fails in Estonia.
** 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.
** The U. S. expands trade sanctions on Haiti to include all goods except food and medicine, in an effort to encourage the leaders of the 1991 Haitian coup d ' état to restore democracy.
** 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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