** General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.

** Somali president Siad Barre's bodyguards massacre antigovernment demonstrators during a soccer match ; 65 people are killed, more than 300 seriously injured.

** Port Barre, Louisiana

** Pennsylvania-Scranton / Wilkes Barre

** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.

** Eunectes notaeus, the yellow anaconda, a smaller species, is found in eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.

** Eunectes deschauenseei, the dark-spotted anaconda, is a rare species found in northeastern Brazil and coastal French Guiana.

** Eunectes beniensis, the Bolivian anaconda, the most recently defined species, is found in the Departments of Beni and Pando in Bolivia.

** Tarski's theorem: For every infinite set A, there is a bijective map between the sets A and A × A.

** The Cartesian product of any family of nonempty sets is nonempty.

** König's theorem: Colloquially, the sum of a sequence of cardinals is strictly less than the product of a sequence of larger cardinals.

** Hausdorff maximal principle: In any partially ordered set, every totally ordered subset is contained in a maximal totally ordered subset.

** For every non-empty set S there is a binary operation defined on S that makes it a group.

** Tychonoff's theorem stating that every product of compact topological spaces is compact.

** In the product topology, the closure of a product of subsets is equal to the product of the closures.

** If S is a set of sentences of first-order logic and B is a consistent subset of S, then B is included in a set that is maximal among consistent subsets of S. The special case where S is the set of all first-order sentences in a given signature is weaker, equivalent to the Boolean prime ideal theorem ; see the section " Weaker forms " below.

** Any union of countably many countable sets is itself countable.

** If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A ( see Dedekind infinite ).

** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.

** The Vitali theorem on the existence of non-measurable sets which states that there is a subset of the real numbers that is not Lebesgue measurable.

** The Lebesgue measure of a countable disjoint union of measurable sets is equal to the sum of the measures of the individual sets.

** The Nielsen – Schreier theorem, that every subgroup of a free group is free.

** Koninklijke TNT Post, the former national postal company in the Netherlands, succeeded by PostNL

** Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell resigns as head of the Conservative Party, to be succeeded by Jean Charest.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

** French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns ; he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.

** Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.

** National Educational Television ends operations, being succeeded by PBS.

** Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.

** The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems, and is succeeded by Egon Krenz.

** U. S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ), who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself " in his inauguration speech.

** Following the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, he is succeeded by his 6 year old daughter Christina while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.

** Upon his death, Frederick I of Sweden is succeeded as king by Adolf Frederick.

** Eumelus, who succeeded Admetus as the King of Pherae.

** Yao: son of Ku ; Yao's elder brother succeeded Ku, but he abdicated when found to be an ineffective ruler

** The START experiment is succeeded by MAST.

** Francis, who succeeded him as 2nd baron

** Guan Yi ( 關彝 ), son of Guan Xing, born to Guan Xing's concubine, succeeded Guan Tong and was killed during the turmoil caused by Zhong Hui.

** 20 Armoured Brigade-( succeeded by Brigadier Nick Carter )

** ( By Del Aram ) Prince Shahzadeh Soltan Abul-Naser Sam Mirza, succeeded as Safi.

** Princess Yangxin the Eldest ( 陽信長公主 ), firstly married Cao Shi the Marquess of Pingyang and had a son, Cao Xiang, who succeeded his father ; married secondly the general and Marquess of Changping Wei Qing ; due to her first marriage to the Marquess of Pingyang, she was commonly referred to as Princess Pingyang ( 平陽公主 )

** Fulin, succeeded Hong Taiji as the Shunzhi Emperor in 1643.

** ( 1. 1. 1 ) Prince Karl, Duke of Skåne, born 3 May 1826 ; Crown Prince from 8 March 1844 ; succeeded 8 July 1859 as Karl XV of Sweden

** ( 1. 1. 3 ) Prince Oscar, Duke of Östergötland, born 21 January 1829 ; succeeded 18 September 1872 as Oscar II of Sweden

** Peter I of Lusignan ( 1328 – 1369 ), succeeded him as King of Cyprus and Jerusalem.

** James I of Lusignan ( 1334 – 1398 ), succeeded his nephew Peter II of Cyprus.