{"slug": "siad-barre", "label": "Siad Barre", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siad_Barre", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209828", "qid": "Q209828", "description": "Head of State of Somalia (1919–1995)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1969, 1995], "span_label": ["1969 CE", "1995 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "somalia", "label": "Somalia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "october", "label": "October", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saudi-arabia", "label": "Saudi Arabia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mogadishu", "label": "Mogadishu", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 21", "text": "October 21 – General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#October", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October", "text": "October – In Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali alphabet as the country's official writing script.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#October", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – Somali military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#April", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Somali President Siad Barre is injured in a car accident in Mogadishu and taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment. Somali opposition groups see this as an opportunity to try to remove Barre, beginning the Somali Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#May", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – President Siad Barre is overthrown, and Somalia enters a civil war. Three days later, Ali Mahdi Muhammad is inaugurated as the next president.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#January", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1995, "year_label": "1995 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Siad Barre, 84–85, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia, heart attack.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360521450", "title": "Deaths in January 1995", "revid": 1360521450, "section": "Deaths › January"}}]}