It has also been suggested by Jože Pirjevec that Stalin was assassinated by the order of Josip Broz Tito in retaliation for assassination attempts on Tito.

Tito was also involved in recruiting for the Dimitrov Battalion, a group of volunteers serving in the Spanish Civil War.

The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first ( and the only successful ) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.

This rift with the Soviet Union brought Tito much international recognition, but also triggered a period of instability often referred to as the Informbiro period.

This had the effect of isolating Albania from the rest of the world, as Hoxha was hostile to both the pro-USA and pro-Soviet spheres of influence, as well as the Non-Aligned Movement under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito, whom Hoxha had also denounced.

The following year, the group released their debut studio album, Laibach, through the Ljubljana ŠKUC Ropot label, which did not feature the group name on the album cover, due to its ban, and a sample from a speech by Tito on one of the album tracks was also censored.

The love story between Berenice and Titus is also the premise of La clemenza di Tito ( 1734 ), an Italian opera by Antonio Caldara ( mus.

They also formed the rhythm section of Tito & Tarantula, a Los Angeles band fronted by Tito Larriva of The Plugz and the Cruzados.

The 6 track EP contained edited versions of tracks off of Buhloone Mindstate but also featured the tracks " Sh. Fe. MC's " ( Shocking Female MC's ) which was a collaboration with A Tribe Called Quest, and Stix & Stonz which featured old-school hip hop artists Grandmaster Caz, Tito of Fearless Four, Whipper Whip, LA Sunshine and Superstar.

There are also salsa artists that transcend both periods, notably the legendary Puerto Rican Tito Puente (" The Mambo King ").

He has also played in concerts with Woody Herman, Herbie Hancock, Woody Shaw, Stan Getz, Céline Dion, Tito Puente, and recently with Alicia Keys and Justin Timberlake.

She also sang duets with home grown singers like: Julieta Venegas, Luis Fonsi, Lucecita Benítez, Víctor Manuelle, Chucho Avellanet, Gilberto Santa Rosa, La India, Gisselle, Lissette, Tito Nieves, Dagmar, Andy Montañez, Danny Rivera, and many more.

He also relays his frustration about being told to wait for Tito, the party or the Russians and has decided to take matters into his own hands.

( see also: Tito Minniti )

In 1961, this first president of Indonesia also found another political alliance, an organization, called the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM, in Indonesia known as Gerakan Non-Blok, GNB ) with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, and Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, in an action called The Initiative of Five ( Sukarno, Nkrumah, Nasser, Tito, and Nehru ).

Sheaffe instructed the militia to make the best terms they could with the Americans, but without informing the senior militia officers or any official of the legislature, he also dispatched Captain Tito LeLièvre of the Royal Newfoundland to set fire to the sloop of war under construction in the dockyard, and to blow up the fort's magazine.

After Tito's death, when each of the constituent parts of Yugoslavia had to have one place named with the word ' Tito ' ( or ' Tito's ') included, the city was also known as Titova Mitrovica ( Титова Митровица ) in Serbian or Mitrovica e Titos in Albanian.

However, there were also personal antagonisms between the two men and Tito felt Đilas undermined his leadership.

Within a year, he discovered that Tito and his brothers Jackie and Jermaine could also hold notes and his father built a group around them simply calling them The Jackson Brothers.

Tito, who is a natural baritone, hummed the bass melody in " I Want You Back " while his other brothers backed him up before Michael and Jermaine led the rest of the song, Tito also sung a partial lead in the group's 1970 hit, " ABC ".

When Tito died on 4 May 1980, he was succeeded by a presidency that rotated annually between the six Republics and two Autonomous Regions.

When Tito refused to pay his commission, Castiglioni succeeded in getting Yugoslavian assets in Italy worth millions sequestered.

He was succeeded by Teburoro Tito after defeat in a September 1994 election.

The impact of La Sonora Matancera is far-reaching, so much so that New York-based Latin musicians of the caliber of Machito y Su Orquesta ( his sister Graciela on lead vocals ), Tito Puente and His Orchestra, Tito Rodríguez and His Orchestra, Alegre All Stars, Eddie Palmieri and His Conjunto La Perfecta, Pacheco y Su Viejo Tumbao ( later on succeeded by Pacheco y Su Tumbao Añejo ), Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe, Libre, Saoco ( Henry Fiol, co-founder of this particular conjunto, singing lead ), Ismael Miranda y Su Orquesta, Los Soneros de Oriente and Tito Allen have re-recorded some of its original musical numbers.

This government was headed by Tito as provisional Yugoslav Prime Minister and included representatives from the royalist government-in-exile, among others Ivan Šubašić.

" In June 1944 Ivan Šubašić, the Royalist prime minister, and Josip Broz ( Tito ), the Partisan leader, signed an agreement that was an attempt to merge the royal and communist governments.

It was signed on the Dalmatian island of Vis ( in Croatia ) on June 16, 1944. by Josip Broz Tito, the leader of the Partisans, and Ivan Šubašić, Prime Minister of the Royal Government in exile and previous ban ( governor ) of autonomuos Croatia in the pre-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Partisan commander Josip Broz Tito and Ivan Ribar during the Battle of the Sutjeska.

The Yugoslav government declared its intention to refrain from any specific recommendations until an agreement on unity government was reached between Josip Broz Tito and Prime Minister Ivan Šubašić.

Immediately after the Naples Conference, Tito continued the diplomatic discussions on Vis, this time with Dr Ivan Subasic, prime minister of the Royal Jugoslav Government, and his colleagues.

Other rivals included Iron Sheik, Ivan Koloff, and Jesse " The Body " Ventura, who when commentating for the WWF would refer to Putski as " Puduski " in much the same way he would later refer to Tito Santana as " Chico ".

Ivan Ribar ( left ) and Partisan commander Josip Broz Tito during the Battle of the Sutjeska

They won their first title in the WWF by defeating the team of Ivan Putski and Tito Santana on April 12, 1980.

They made their Madison Square Garden debut on January 21, 1980 in a WWF Tag Team Championship match against Tito Santana and Ivan Putski, who retained their title.

Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito had pushed the development of military industries in the republic with the result that Bosnia and Herzegovina was saddled with a host of industrial firms with little commercial potential.

* 1953 – Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.

Tito was named President of the National Committee of Liberation.

King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.

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President Tito, a Croat-Slovene, advocated equality among the ethnic groups including non-Slavs.

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* April 7 – Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.

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** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia.

After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Bled came under the rule of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and became a summer domicile of the ruling House of Karađorđević, a tradition that President Josip Broz Tito continued, when he built his residence here in 1947.

From 1946 to 1992, the city was named Titograd () in honour of Josip Broz Tito, the former President of Yugoslavia.

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