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In December 1993, Conté was elected to a 5-year term as president in the country's first multi-party elections, which were marred by irregularities and lack of transparency on the part of the government.
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December and 1993
In December 1993, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the son of previous president Eduardo Frei Montalva, led the Concertación coalition to victory with an absolute majority of votes ( 58 %).
Long-time President Houphouët Boigny, in power since the 1960s, passed away in December 1993, unleashing a succession crisis which quickly involved the power institutions of the state.
Since the death of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar in a police shootout during December 1993, indiscriminate acts of violence associated with that organization have abated as the " cartels " have broken up into multiple, smaller and often-competing trafficking organizations.
The Convention was opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1992 and entered into force on 29 December 1993.
* On December 15, 1993, Colin Powell was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
# Still Pumped from Using the Mouse — December 14, 1992 to September 27, 1993
The first public version of Doom was uploaded to Software Creations BBS and an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin – Madison on December 10, 1993.
" Don't ask, don't tell " ( DADT ) was the official United States policy on homosexuals serving in the military from December 21, 1993 to September 20, 2011.
The Clinton Administration on December 21, 1993, issued Defense Directive 1304. 26, which directed that military applicants were not to be asked about their sexual orientation.
In accordance with the December 21, 1993, Department of Defense Directive 1332. 14, it was legal policy ( 10 U. S. C.
According to the statements given by Berlinger and Sinofsky, Cooper informed them of his receipt of the knife on December 19, 1993.
:* Edouard Saouma ( Lebanon ): January 1976 – December 1993.
It was also revealed in December 1996 that Fine Gael had received some £ 180, 000 from Ben Dunne in the period 1987 to 1993.
Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe in November / December 1993.
Following President Bongo's re-election in December 1993 with 51 % of the vote, opposition candidates refused to validate the election results.
Following President Bongo's re-election in December 1993 with 51 % of the vote, opposition candidates refused to validate the election results.
Ireland also passed legislation in response to the EU directive with the effective date being 31 December 1993.
The official conversion rate of the lempira fell to US $ 1 = L7. 26 in December 1993.
In December 1993, during UNOSOM II, a Saudi Arabian HMMWV departs for the seaport of Mogadishu, Somalia.
* First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories from December 1987 to 1993
The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.
After the Gator Bowl game on December 31, 1993 the old stadium was essentially demolished and replaced with a reinforced concrete superstructure.
He released an EP called Fire It Up in December 1993.
After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).
December and Conté
Lansana Conté died on December 23, 2008, leading to a coup d ' état by the military.
In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.
Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.
On 5 May 2009, President Moussa Dadis Camara, who seized power in a bloodless coup which followed the 22 December 2008 death of President Lansana Conté, announced the recall of 30 of Guinea's ambassadors to other countries.
On 9 December 2004, Diallo was appointed as Prime Minister by Guinean President Lansana Conté.
Conté died in December 2008 and soldiers immediately seized power in a military coup d ' état.
Nicolas-Jacques Conté ( 4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805 ) was a French painter, balloonist, army officer, and inventor of the modern pencil.
Its candidate in the 21 December 2003 presidential election, Lansana Conté, won 95. 25 % of the vote ; this election was, however, generally boycotted by the opposition.
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It was really a May and December combination.
As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.
In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.
The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.
He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.
In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.
The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.
She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.
Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.
For these crimes he was sentenced to be hanged in public on Friday, December 2, 1859.
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.
It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.
On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.
He said the snow plan was put in effect too slowly in December.
The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.
The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.
Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.
" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.
Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.
By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.
Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
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The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.
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