Siad Barre
Head of State of Somalia (1919–1995)
6 dated entries naming Siad Barre, drawn from 6 separate years between 1969 CE and 1995 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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20th century
- 1969October 21 – General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.source
- 1972October – In Somalia, the government of President Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali alphabet as the country's official writing script.source
- 1978April 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.source
- 1986May 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.source
- 1991January 26 – President Siad Barre is overthrown, and Somalia enters a civil war. Three days later, Ali Mahdi Muhammad is inaugurated as the next president.source
- 1995January 2 – Siad Barre, 84–85, Somalian military leader and statesman, 3rd President of Somalia, heart attack.source
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