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In more recent history, Dipendra was the undisputed King of Nepal for only around 56 hours in 2001, after perpetrating the massacre of his father the king and his family. [24] Pedro Carmona was the acting president of Venezuela for 36 hours in 2002 following a brief coup against Hugo Chavez. [25]
A group of knights answering to the Erembald family Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah: Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate: October 7, 1130: Cairo: Fatimid Caliphate: team of 7 rafiqs from the Order of Assassins: Al-Mustarshid: Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate: August 29, 1135: Maragheh or Hamadan: Abbasid Caliphate: team of rafiqs from the Order of Assassins ...
25 world leaders and dictators when they were young. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment. USA TODAY.
1963 Togolese coup d'état in Togo: Coup leaders including Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma (later Gnassingbé Eyadéma), and Kléber Dadjo took over government buildings, arrested most of the cabinet, and assassinated Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio, outside the American embassy in Lomé.
July 17: Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. August 2: The Second Congo War begins. August 7: Kenya and Tanzania bombings. August 15: Omagh bombing. September 4: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Here are the nine worst years to be alive in human history. ... World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, and 1945 was a particularly grim year as it marked the war's violent conclusion ...
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1944. In world history, this year ranks among the worst. The Holocaust was at its height, and much of the world was engulfed in war. In a period spanning mid-May to early July of this year alone ...