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The AFRC came to power in a coup that removed the Supreme Military Council, another military regime, from power. The June 4 coup was preceded by an abortive attempt on May 15, 1979, when Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings and other ranks were arrested.
The revolution began when the military government of the Supreme Military Council (SMC II), consisting of Lieutenant General Fred Akuffo, put Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings on public trial for attempting to overthrow the government on 15 May 1979. This failed coup had happened because Rawlings, a junior soldier in the Ghanaian Army, and ...
The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) was a group of Sierra Leone soldiers that allied itself with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s. While the AFRC briefly controlled the country in 1998, it was driven from the capital by an international military intervention of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG).
Jerry John Rawlings (born Jerry Rawlings John; 22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) [1] was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator and politician who led the country for a brief period in 1979, and then from 1981 to 2001.
1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état; 1979 Herat uprising; 1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran; 1979 Khuzestan insurgency; 1979 Mauritanian coup d'état;
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Ghana, ruled Ghana for 4 months in 1979; Armed Forces Recreation Center, resorts run by the United States Armed Forces for members of the military and their families; Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, a NASA center on Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States
3 – Passed – California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law Of 1976. 4 – Failed – Bonds To Provide Public Community College Facilities. 5 – Passed – Banks, Corporations, Franchises And Insurers-Taxation. 6 – Passed – Insurance Company Home Office Tax Deduction. 7 – Passed – Taxation of Restricted Historic Property.