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* 1967 – Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d ' état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
* Constitution of 1967 – after the 1964 coup d ' État against João Goulart, the military dictatorship passed the Institutional Acts, a supraconstitutional law.
Pollack says that the defeat of the Arabs during the Six-Day War of July 1967 was an important factor in the coup, as the officers believed that Libya should have dispatched forces to aid Egypt and the other Arab states.
* 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek officer involved in the coup of April 1967 ( b. 1912 )
On 13 January 1967, Eyadema Gnassingbe overthrew Grunitzky in a bloodless coup and assumed the presidency, which he held from that date until his sudden death on 5 February 2005 after 38 years in power, the longest occupation of any dictator in Africa.
* August 24 – Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens.
Angelopoulos began making films after the 1967 coup that began the Greek military dictatorship known as the Regime of the Colonels.
In a second coup ( 1965 ), he assumed the office of Prime Minister in 1966 and then established a presidential form of government headed by himself in 1967.
It will tear your guts out ... When the Army junta staged its coup in 1967, the right-wing generals and the police chief were cleared of all charges and ‘ rehabilitated .’ Those responsible for unmasking the assassination now became political criminals.
According to the 1967 constitution, Presidents were at that time elected by both Houses of Congress in joint session, with representatives of all State Legislatures ; this was widely recognised as a mere sham as, since the March 1964 coup d ' état, each " elected " President had been a retired general chosen in a closed military caucus.
On July 20, 1974, the Turkish army invaded Cyprus in response to a coup d ' état carried out by EOKA B and the Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974, landing at 5-Mile point, east of Kyrenia.
The air force and navy, both strongly royalist and not involved in the 1967 coup, immediately declared for him and mobilised.
* 1967: R. John Hughes, Christian Science Monitor, " for his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965-66.
The last king, Constantine II, was forced into exile after a coup in 1967 and the republic was proclaimed in 1973 by the then ruling military dictatorship.
Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq (, *), also Mossadegh, Mossadeq, Mosadeck, or Musaddiq ( 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967 ), was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was overthrown in a coup d ' état orchestrated by the British MI6 and the United States CIA.
According to the former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, after the Athens Colonel Coup in April 1967, Longo and other PCI leaders became alarmed at the possibility of a coup in Italy.
There were coup attempts and a failed assassination in 1967 — 68, after which opponents were exiled or imprisoned and Boumediene's power consolidated.
The Cyprus issue was revived by the dictatorship of the colonels, who presented their April 21, 1967, coup d ' état as the only way to defend the traditional values of what they called the " Hellenic-Christian Civilization ".
In 1967, great challenges confronted the Igbos of Nigeria with the coup d ’ etat of 15 January 1966 led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu who was widely considered to be an outstanding progressive and was buried with full military honours when killed by those he fought against.
On 21 April 1967, a group of right-wing Greek Army colonels led by Georgios Papadopoulos successfully carried out a coup d ' état on the pretext of imminent " communist threat ", establishing what became known as the Regime of the Colonels.
Greece entered a period of political polarisation and instability, which ended with the coup d ' état of 21 April 1967.
Despite his former American citizenship and academic career in the United States, Papandreou held the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for the 1967 coup and became increasingly critical of the Federal government of the United States.
After the April 1967 military coup by the Colonels ' junta led by George Papadopoulos, Papandreou was arrested.
In 1967, Colonel Eyadema of the Togolese Army led a second military coup against Grunitzky.

1967 and following
He had introduced the adele ring in the late 1930s, following Claude Chevalley's lead with the ideles, and given a proof of the Riemann – Roch theorem with them ( a version appeared in his Basic Number Theory in 1967 ).
The conservatives opposed the far right dictatorship of the colonels ( 1967 – 1974 ) and established the New Democratic Party following the fall of the dictatorship.
Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned " Over the Wall We Go " became a 1967 single for Oscar ; another Bowie composition, " Silly Boy Blue ", was released by Billy Fury the following year.
Following this, in 1967 / 68, the General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) replaced the definition of the SI second by the following:
They relocated to Los Angeles the following year, and after several lineup changes signed to Lee Hazlewood's LHI Records, where they spent late 1967 recording Safe at Home.
By 1968 Parsons had come to the attention of The Byrds ' bassist, Chris Hillman, via Larry Spector ( The Byrds ' business manager ), as a possible replacement band member following the departures of David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the group in late 1967.
The franchise was established following the actions of Stuart Symington, then-United States Senator from Missouri, who demanded a new franchise for the city after the Athletics ( Kansas City's previous major league team from 1955 to 1967 ) moved to Oakland, California.
The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.
Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.
The British defence guarantee ended following Britain's decision in 1967 to withdraw its forces east of Suez, and was replaced in 1971 with the Five Power Defence Arrangements ( FPDA ) by which Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore agreed to co-operate in the area of defence, and to " consult " in the event of external aggression or the threat of attack on Malaysia or Singapore.
The following season, they finished second in the league, then won the title in 1965 and 1967.
* 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
From 1967 Fairport Convention became a mainstay of the London Underground scene, producing their eponymous first album of American-inspired folk rock the following year.
Formed in 1967, the band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success throughout the 1980s.
Widely read and loved in the Soviet Union, Bradbury relates the following meeting with Sergei Bondarchuk, director of soviet 1967 epic War and Peace, at a Hollywood award ceremony in Bondarchuk's honor: " They formed a long queue and as Bondarchuk was walking along it he recognized several people:
From 1967 to 1970 Jenkins served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, replacing James Callaghan following the devaluation crisis of November 1967.
Gerry Anderson made science fiction series for ITV using the puppet based ' Supermarionation ' technique including Fireball XL5 ( 1962 – 63 ), Thunderbirds ( 1965 – 66 ), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 & 68 ), and Stingray ( 1964 – 65 ) which all retain a following.
Upon becoming President of Egypt following the death in office of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Al-Sadat sought a diplomatic solution to the conflict, offering peace and recognition to Israel in exchange for the Israeli withdrawal from all the Egyptian, Palestinian, and Syrian territory occupied in 1967, and a resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem.
* 5 June 1967 to 10 June 1975 — Suez Canal is blocked by Egypt, following a war with Israel ; it becomes the front line during the ensuing War of Attrition and the 1973 war, remaining closed to international shipping, until general agreement was near.
He had a good instinct for what the " Arab street " demanded, following the decline in Egyptian leadership brought about by the trauma of Israel's six-day victory in the 1967 war, the death of the pan-Arabist hero, Gamal Abdul Nasser, in 1970, and the " traitorous " drive by his successor, Anwar Sadat, to sue for peace with the Jewish state.
* the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, formed in 1967 following failures in this province of the United Kingdom to respect the Catholic minority's rights ; and
In dire financial straits following the war, the Liechtenstein dynasty often resorted to selling family artistic treasures, including for instance the portrait " Ginevra de ' Benci " by Leonardo da Vinci, which was purchased by the National Gallery of Art of the United States in 1967.
The period following the 1967 war saw an upsurge in the power and importance of Palestinian militants ( fedayeen ) in Jordan.

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