* January 7 – 10: In the Battle of Ganale Dorya, General Graziani counter-attacks the advancing troops of Ras Desta Damtew.

Dejazmach Beiene Merid and Dejazmach Gabre Mariam are killed ; Ras Desta Damtew although wounded escapes the slaughter, only to be hunted down and killed five days later.

Princess Tenagnework was first married to Ras Desta Damtew, a member of the prominent aristocratic Addisge clan.

Ras Desta Damtew was appointed Governor-General, first of Kaffa and Limu, and then of Sidamo.

In 1930, Haile Selassie removed an enfeebled Abba Jifar II from power and installed his son-in-law, Ras Desta Damtew, in his place.

Irgalem was occupied by the Italians 1 December 1936 during their campaign against the remaining Ethiopian Army of Sidamo under Ras Desta Damtew.

Ras Desta was captured and summarily executed by the fascist forces.

Among the many relatives, friends and associates of the Princess to die at this time, was her remaining son, Rear Admiral Prince Iskinder ( Alexander ) Desta.

Desta was born in the small town of Tiqur Wuha near Awassa, Ethiopia.

At this first congress, a Central Committee was elected and included Desta Tadesse, Kiflu Teferra, Kiflu Tadesse, Tesfaye Debessay, Berhane Meskel Reda, Iyasu Alemayehu, and Zeru Kehishen, with the latter four elected to the EPLO Politburo and Berhane Meskel Reda elected the organization's Secretary General.

Ras Mengesha Seyoum is married to Princess Aida Desta, a granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie and is the current head of the Tigrean branch of the Solomonic dynasty.

This meeting ended with the deaths of not only Tafari and the two captains, but four other Derg members who had been opposed to Mengistu-Lieutenant Colonel Asrat Desta, Lieutenant Colonel Heruy Haile Selassie, Captain Tefera Denke, and Corporal Haile Belay-as well as one Derg member who supported Mengistu, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Asfaw, and a civilian Senay Likke.

She bore her second husband two children as well, a daughter Woizero Desta Amede, and a son Jantirar Gebregziabiher Amede.

Ras Desta and Princess Tenagnework were the parents of two sons, Princes Amha and Iskinder Desta ( later Rear Admiral ), and four daughters, Princesses Aida Desta, Seble Desta, Sophia Desta and Hirut Desta.

However, Ras Desta remained behind to command the imperial forces fighting in the south of the country.

Unfortunately, her elder son, Amha Desta, died shortly before the return.

Within the next two weeks, 150 more members of not only the former government, but the current government, the provincial administration, the nobility, and even the Imperial family -- Iskinder Desta, the Emperor's grandson.

Tamrat Desta ( born 1978 ) is an Ethiopian singer and vocalist.

In 1998, Desta moved to Dire Dawa, situated 515 kilometers east of Addis Ababa, to live with his guardian and work at Cherqa Cherq Yekenet Buden.

In 1999, Desta relocated to Addis Ababa to pursue his music career.

* A conversation with Tamrat Desta by AddisLive. com ( audio file )

In town are the remnants of two castles from the Zemene Mesafint (" Era of Princes "), one ( pictured ) owned by Dej Desta, the other by the Ras Sebhat Aregawi.

One-armed, gruff, frugally honest, Governor Pope had been the ideal man to assume office in Arkansas after the disgraceful antics of political bosses like Crittenden, and he ruled the state with an iron fist, tolerating no nonsense.

French Guinea, along with Senegal, Dahomey, Cote-d ' Ivoire and Upper Senegal and Niger each were ruled by a lieutenant governor, under the Governor General in Dakar.

British Governor Raffles, who the later founded the city of Singapore, ruled the colony the following 10 years of the British interregnum ( 1806 – 1816 ).

Afterwards, the colony was ruled by the military, with the senior military officer stationed in Sydney acting as the Lieutenant-Governor of the colony until the arrival from Britain of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie as the new Governor at the beginning of 1810.

Okonkwo also ruled it as " Governor ".

A Federal district court in Minneapolis ruled against the Governor on December 23, and the plant turned back to Wilson & Co. just days later.

But at New Hampshire's 1741 separation from Massachusetts, the grant was ruled invalid and substituted with Wilton, Maine, so Governor Benning Wentworth rechartered the town in 1751 as Derryfield.

He was elected Governor in 1844 as a Democrat, having secured the backing of the Conway-Sevier faction that had ruled Arkansas since territorial days.

The Court ruled in the case Simpson v. Hill that the Legislature ’ s actions were unconstitutional and that they could only meet during regular sessions or at the call of the Governor in special session.

The Mamluk Governor of Gaza Sanjar al-Jawli ruled the area in the early 14th-century and endowed part of Jabalia's land to the al-Shamah Mosque he built in Gaza.

The Nationalists saw their country as having been occupied and dominated by a foreign power, namely, Britain, since 1980-even though the British Government, in the person of the Governor General had been expelled in 1964 by the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith and had only ruled since the end of the British South Africa Company in the 1920s.

Beginning in 1601, the couple ruled the Spanish Netherlands together, and after Albert's death Isabella was appointed Governor of the Netherlands on behalf of the King of Spain.

Sometimes a Governor General ruled several guberniyas.

The issue proved highly divisive, and Virginia's bid failed when Virginia Governor Mark Warner ruled out state financing for stadium construction.

During his term of office, Governor King froze property taxes, reduced state spending on social programs, undertook a variety of efforts to encourage increased business and agricultural opportunities in the Commonwealth, and took a tough stand on crime by introducing mandatory minimum sentences and passing legislation to reintroduce the death penalty in Massachusetts, a measure which was later ruled unconstitutional by the state's Supreme Judicial Court.

British India consisted of fifteen provinces, all British possessions, ruled directly by the British in all respects, either through a Governor or a Chief Commissioner, officials appointed by the Viceroy.

Following the Montague-Chelmsford reforms of 1919, Madras was the first province of British India to implement a system of dyarchy, and thereafter its Governor ruled alongside a Prime Minister.

Crown colonies ruled directly by a Governor such as Basutoland, Gibraltar, Saint Helena and Singapore were fewest in number and had the least autonomy.

ruled unanimously that " the Governor ’ s purported appointment of Mr. Ravitch was unlawful because no provision of the Constitution or of any statute provides for the filling of a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor other than by election.

The territory was a namestnichestvo until 1875 and later Governorate General, ruled by the Namestniks and Governor Generals of Poland.

Royal Assent to the bill was reserved by Lieutenant Governor James Aikins and eventually the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at Westminster ruled that, since the law affected an appointee of the federal Crown, it was ultra vires and struck down.

He was selected as the PRI's candidate in the 2003 gubernatorial election and, after heated disputes and the annulment of the first round, he was ruled the victor and was invested as Governor on January 1, 2004.

The first Governor General Lord Frederick Lugard ruled the new nation of Nigeria from Lokoja.

Ferdinand became Governor of the Duchy of Milan on his marriage in 1771, as long as his father-in-law Ercole III d ' Este still ruled the Duchy of Modena.

During the campaign, Johnston, now Governor of South Carolina, was strongly supportive of Roosevelt's foreign policy, but was now lukewarm towards the New Deal and was able to the snatch the " flag of white supremacy " from Smith by boasting how he countered the US Supreme Court's recent Smith v. Allwright decision, which ruled that racial segregation in state primaries was unconstitutional, by passing a series of laws making the South Carolina Democratic Party a private club which could keep blacks from voting in the state's primary.