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Brazil: A counter-coup led by marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott overthrew the government of Carlos Luz and prevented a coup against the elected president Juscelino Kubitschek. Revolución Libertadora in Argentina: A military coup overthrew President Juan Perón. Yemen: An attempted coup was led by Colonel Ahmad Yahya al-Thulaya, but ended in failure.
On 30 September 1965, six of the military's most senior officers were tortured and killed (generally labelled an "attempted coup") by the so-called 30 September Movement, a battalion of soldiers from the Tjakrabirawa Regiment (Presidential Guard). Within a few hours, Major General Suharto mobilised forces under his command and took control of ...
The 1991 Soviet coup attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the CPSU at the time.
In the early hours of 1 October 1965, they assassinated six Indonesian Army generals in an abortive coup d'état. [11] Later that morning, the organization declared that it was in control of media and communication outlets and had taken President Sukarno under its protection. By the end of the day, the coup attempt had failed in Jakarta.
May 11, 1988: A first coup attempt against Guatemalan president Vinicio Cerezo took place. [98] May 9, 1989: A second coup attempt against Guatemalan president Vinicio Cerezo took place. [98] May 25 to June 5, 1993: An attempted self-coup by President Jorge Serrano sparked a constitutional crisis.
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War.It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc, the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
President Johnson was elected to a full term in one of the largest landslide election victories in American history, winning 61% of the popular vote, receiving 43,129,040 votes to Goldwater's 27,175,754 votes. President Johnson won an even larger Electoral College victory, winning 486 electoral votes to 52 for Goldwater.
A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia, more commonly known as the "Cornell Paper", is an academic publication detailing the events of an abortive coup d'état attempt [1] by the self-proclaimed September 30 Movement, produced on January 10, 1966.