* 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d ' état.

After independence, President Moktar Ould Daddah, originally installed by the French, formalized Mauritania into a one-party state in 1964 with a new constitution, which set up an authoritarian presidential regime.

Claims on Western Sahara had proliferated since the 1960s, fuelled by Mauritanian President Moktar Ould Daddah.

Moktar Ould Daddah (; December 25, 1924 – October 14, 2003 ) was the President of Mauritania from 1960, when his country gained its independence from France, to 1978, when he was deposed in a military coup d ' etat.

It was founded on June 11, 1993 by Hamdi Ould Mouknass, who previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Moktar Ould Daddah.

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

President Ould Daddah survived the challenge from left-wing opponents by nationalising the company in 1974 and withdrawing from the franc zone, substituting the ouguiya for the CFA.

On July 10, 1978, Col. Mustafa Ould Salek led a bloodless coup d ' état that ousted the President, who would later go into exile in France.

On June 8, 2003 a failed coup attempt was made against President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya by forces unhappy with his imprisonment of Islamic leaders in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq and his establishment of full diplomatic relations with Israel.

On August 3, 2005 the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, performing a coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

Incumbent President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya won reelection with 67. 02 % of the popular vote, according to the official figures, with ex-head-of-state Col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla finishing second.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

It aimed to overthrow President Maaouya Ould Taya.

General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a career soldier and high-ranking officer, was a leading figure in the 2005 Mauritanian coup d ' état that deposed President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya.

In August 2008 General Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d ' état that toppled President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

In May 1987, Senegal extradited Captain Moulaye Asham Ould Ashen, a former black member of the Haidalla government accused of corruption, but only after veiled threats from Nouakchott that failure to do so would result in Mauritania's allowing Senegalese dissidents a platform from which to speak out against the government of President Abdou Diouf.

** In Mauritania, security forces open fire on opponents of President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, killing at least five people.

Little public information exists, and it must be inferred from behind the scenes meetings between Mauritania and Israel in 1995 and 1996m said to be at the instigation of Mauritania's President Ould Taya ; the establishment of unofficial " interest sections " in the respective Spanish embassies in 1996 in the two capital cities, leading to ; the exchange of diplomatic representatives in each other's countries from 27 October 1999 ; that Mauritania had reversed its declaration by then.

He was the Prime Minister of Mauritania from July 6, 2003, when he was appointed by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya following an attempted coup in the previous month, until August 7, 2005, when he resigned following a successful coup against Taya.

President Mokhtar Ould Daddah had claimed the territory as part of " Greater Mauritania " even before independence ( Ould Ahmed Salem, p. 498 ).

In its place the Rally of Democratic Forces was established, and Daddah was elected its President in January 2002.

Mustafa Ould Salek was appointed army commander by longtime President Mokhtar Ould Daddah in February 1978, as the country faced dire economic crisis and was failing to contain the Polisario Front's Sahrawi guerrillas after invading Western Sahara in 1975 in alliance with Morocco.

On July 10, 1978, Ould Salek led a military coup d ' état against President Daddah, and was appointed head of the 20-man junta ( the Military Committee for National Recovery, CMRN ) that was to rule the country.

On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).

After his death, the Looney Tunes cartoon Daffy Duck for President, based on the book that Jones had written and using Jones ' style for the characters, originally scheduled to be released in 2000, was released in 2004 as part of disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD set.

President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.

After the recount, President Chen was confirmed the winner of the election by a smaller margin ( 25, 563 as opposed to 29, 518 originally ).

Fay had originally received a sentence of six lashes of the cane, but the then President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong agreed to reduce his caning sentence to four lashes.

* John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, also Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy, members of the Kennedy Family, originally from Wexford.

The American Vision for Space Exploration, originally introduced by President George W. Bush and put into practice through the Constellation program, had as a long term goal to eventually send human astronauts to Mars.

Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln, but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's cause.

Originally used to refer to the presiding officer of a committee or governing body in Great Britain the usage was also applied to political leaders, including the leaders of some of the Thirteen Colonies ( originally Virginia in 1608 ); in full, the " President of the Council.

During the Civil War, Lee originally served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis.

The E-4 aircraft were originally stationed at Andrews AFB, Maryland so they could be easily accessed by the President and the Secretary of Defense, with SAC also establishing three dispersed support squadrons for the E-4 at Westover AFB, Massachusetts, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana and March AFB, California.

Although this was probably originally intended to avoid a situation where the Vice President was presiding over a debate that could ultimately result in his promotion to the presidency ( were the President convicted and removed from office ), it also prevents a possibly more likely contemporary scenario, where a President accused of some offense is being tried by the Senate presided over by a Vice President who may well be sympathetic to the President, reducing the independence of the Senate's consideration of the delicate question of whether to remove a sitting chief executive.

Although originally aligned with Fatah, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad feared a loss of influence in Lebanon and switched sides.

The second time was when Ford, after becoming President upon Nixon's resignation, chose Nelson Rockefeller ( originally Agnew's mentor in the moderate wing of the Republican Party ) to succeed him as Vice President.

Calhoun originally was a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1824.

The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named " Great Salt Lake City " by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( known as the Mormon or LDS Church ) Brigham Young, who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.