* 1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement ( formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup ) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.

During his first year as president of the union, the University was renamed Cairo University after a coup was carried out by the Free Officers Movement overthrowing King Farouk I.

Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, a leader of the Free Officers Movement, agreed to allow the United Nations Emergency Force to establish itself in the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, causing the expulsion of all guerrilla or " fedayeen " forces there — including Arafat.

Said K. Aburish states reasons for this could have included Nasser's refusal to cooperate with and encourage the Iraqi Free Officers a year before the coup or Qasim viewed Nasser as a threat to his supremacy as leader of Iraq.

After 1949, the group adopted the name " Association of Free Officers " and " talked of ... freedom and the restoration of their country ’ s dignity.

" He organized the founding committee of the Free Officers, which eventually comprised fourteen men from different social and political backgrounds, with some being members of Young Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Egyptian Communist Party, as well as the aristocracy.

In the 1950 parliamentary elections, the Wafd Party of el-Nahhas gained a victory — mostly due to the absence of the Muslim Brotherhood, who boycotted the elections — and was perceived as a threat by the Free Officers as they had campaigned on demands similar to theirs.

Accusations of corruption against Wafd politicians began to surface, however, breeding an atmosphere of rumor and suspicion that consequently brought the Free Officers to the forefront of Egyptian politics.

" Nasser felt that the Free Officers were not ready to move against the government, and for nearly two years he did little beyond recruit more officers and issue his underground news bulletins.

Nasser was determined to establish the independence of the army from the monarchy, and with Amer as an intermediary, resolved to field a nominee for the Free Officers ; they selected Muhammad Naguib, a popular general who had offered his resignation to Farouk in 1942 over British high-handedness and was thrice wounded in the Palestine War.

Naguib won overwhelmingly and the Free Officers, through their connection with a leading Egyptian daily, al-Misri, publicized his victory while praising the nationalistic spirit of the army.

A short time later, in May 1952, Nasser received word that Farouk knew the names of the Free Officers and intended to arrest them ; thus, he immediately entrusted Zakaria Mohieddine with the task of drawing up plans for a takeover of the government by army units loyal to the association.

The Free Officers ' intention was not to install themselves in government, but to re-establish a parliamentary democracy.

The Free Officers seized control of all government buildings, radio stations, and police stations, as well as army headquarters in Cairo.

According to journalist Aburish, after assuming power, Nasser and the Free Officers expected to become the " guardians of the people's interests " against the monarchy and the pasha-class, while leaving the day-to-day tasks of government to civilians.

The Free Officers then renamed themselves the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ), with Naguib as chairman and Nasser as vice-chairman.

Aburish states that reasons for this could have included Nasser's refusal to cooperate with the Iraqi Free Officers a year before the coup or Qasim's view that Nasser threatened his supremacy as leader of Iraq.

Sadat had been a close confidant of Nasser and a senior member of the Free Officers movement that led the Revolution of 1952.

Category: Free Officers Movement

The post-war years saw major changes in Egypt, including the growth of nationalism, the abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936, and the overthrow of the monarchy, led by the Free Officers Movement, including its ultimate leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, as well as Anwar Sadat.

The Germans realized Farouk's political weakness and allegedly began conspiring with Nasser and the Free Officers Movement who were also working closely with the Muslim Brotherhood, to overthrow Farouk, which finally happened in 1952.

It was at about this time that al-Bakr got into contact with the Free Officers and Civilians Movement.

A similar process within the military officer corps followed, with the formation of the Supreme Committee of Free Officers.

The coup was discussed and planned by the Free Officers, but was mainly executed by Qasim and Col. Abdul Salam Arif.

In an era when democratic governments formed in the aftermath of the First World War were moving away from democracy and towards dictatorships, the Free State under Cosgrave remained unambiguously democratic, a fact shown by his handing over of power to his one-time friend, then rival, Éamon de Valera, when de Valera's Fianna Fáil won the 1932 general election, in the process killing off talk within the Irish Army of staging a coup to keep Cosgrave in power and de Valera out of it.

On 23 July 1952, the Free Officers commenced the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 with a coup d ' état to depose King Farouk.

Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, but a civilian-led coup in May 2000 ushered in a prolonged period of political turmoil.

On April 29, 1918 the head of the German group army Kiew ( Heeresgruppe Kiew ), Hermann von Eichhorn organized a coup and appointed the Conservative General Pavlo Skoropadsky ( commander of the first Russian Corps and later leader of the Free Cossacks ) as Hetman of what was termed the Ukrainska Derzhava or Ukrainian State.

While the first military coups began its mission in Syria in the late 1940s, it was the Free Officers coup in Egypt and the revolution of 1952 that would have the greatest impact and encourage later movements.

The Free Officers Committee enlisted General Muhammad Naguib as a public figurehead in preparation for the successful coup of July 23, 1952.

A third nation, the Free Ocean State of Numara, remains isolated and neutral, though it is falling into disarray due to a general attempting to stage a coup d ' etat.

On 23 July the Free Officers, led by Muhammad Naguib, took power, overthrowing the monarchy ; the coup was greeted with enthusiasm throughout Egypt.

In 1952, Genscher fled to West Germany, where he joined the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

* 1952 – Andy Fraser, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Free, Sharks, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers )

Governor Muñoz Marín inaugurated the new status called Estado Libre Asociado — or Free Associated State in English — and raised the Puerto Rican flag along with the national anthem of Puerto Rico for the first time on July 25, 1952 — date in which Puerto Ricans celebrate the Constitution of Puerto Rico ( see also: Holidays in Puerto Rico ).

His cautionary fables include " The Beautiful People " ( 1952 ), a futuristic short story about a rebellious adolescent girl who lives in a largely conformist society in which people obligatorily alter their physical appearance ( adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone: " Number 12 Looks Just Like You "), and " Free Dirt " ( 1955 ), about a frugally gluttonous man who gorges on his entire vegetable harvest, but instead dies from having consumed the magical soil he used to grow it.

Glencoe, Ill .: The Free Press, 1952.

* Henry Corta ( 1921 – 1998 ), a Free French SAS lieutenant veteran, les bérets rouges ( red berets ), Paris, 1952, amicale des anciens parachutistes SAS,

* Henry Corta ( 1921 – 1998 ), a Free French SAS lieutenant veteran, les bérets rouges ( red berets ), Paris, 1952, amicale des anciens parachutistes SAS,

After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels ( now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ) from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970.

The executive committee of the Officers ' Club was dissolved and the Free Officers brought their plans for a revolution three years forward, taking power in July 1952.

* Monterey, a Matson cruise ship constructed from a 1952 C4 Mariner-class hull formerly named Free State Mariner ; renamed Monte in 2006 to be broken up for scrap in 2007

* 1952: Human Communities: the City and Human Ecology Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press

The Free Officers who toppled King Farouk in the Revolution of 1952 assigned specific symbolism to each of the three bands of the Arab Liberation flag.

Following the Revolution of 1952, the Free Officers retained the flag of the Kingdom, but also introduced the Arab Liberation flag of red, white, and black horizontal bands, with the emblem of the Revolution, the Eagle of Saladin, in the center band.

The states were re-established after World War II, however from 1952 only Bavaria still called itself a Free State and that made Freistaat a synonym for Bavaria.

The Urabi revolution was seen by the Free Officers movement as a precursor to the 1952 revolution, and both Nasser and Neguib were likened to ‘ Urabi.

Persecution and the Art of Writing, published in 1952 by the Free Press, is a book of collected articles written by Leo Strauss.

Ashley joined the staff of Radio Free Europe ( RFE ) in 1952.

* Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923, Robert G. L. Waite, Cambridge, Mass., 1952.