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The rally of power-seizure movement in Shanxi, China (April 1967).. The seizure of power (simplified Chinese: 夺权; traditional Chinese: 奪權), or power-seizure movement (simplified Chinese: 夺权运动; traditional Chinese: 奪權運動) during the Cultural Revolution was a series of events led by the "rebel groups", attempting to grab power from the local governments in China and local ...
Shanxi rebel factions organising a seizure of power ceremony, c. April 1967. After the outbreak of the January Storm, it created a ripple effect throughout China, causing a series of revolutions and seizures of power in several provinces, such as in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, and Shandong.
It is this event that would become termed Hitler's Machtergreifung ("seizure of power"). The term was originally used by some Nazis to suggest a revolutionary process, [ 97 ] though Hitler, and others, used the word Machtübernahme ("take-over of power"), reflecting that the transfer of power took place within the existing constitutional ...
The seizure of power occurred on January 25 while Obote was attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Singapore. [6] For various reasons, relations between Obote and Amin—his army commander—had become insidiously strained.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Tunis on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of President Kais Saied's seizure of power, calling for an end to "autocratic rule" and the immediate ...
Many of the official national holidays in the Third Reich were anniversaries of political events, namely the seizure of power (January 30), the announcement of the Nazi Party program in 1920 (24 February), Hitler's birthday (20 April) and the Beer Hall Putsch (9 November). Others were traditional German holidays.
The EU rejects the seizure of power by force in Gabon and called for restraint from all parties, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement on Thursday. A military junta on ...
A second attempt to auction the family home of Myanmar's imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi failed on Thursday after no bidders showed up, likely deterred by the court-ordered asking price ...