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7 hours ago · 1970 – Coup in Syria, led by Hafez al-Assad. 1971 – Military coup in Uganda led by Idi Amin. 1973 – Coup d'état in Chile on September 11th, Salvador Allende was overthrown and killed in a military attack on the presidential palace. Augusto Pinochet takes power backed by the military junta.
7 hours ago · Bill Walton. William Theodore Walton III (November 5, 1952 – May 27, 2024) was an American professional basketball player and television sportscaster. [1] He played college basketball at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers, San Diego / Los Angeles ...
7 hours ago · The Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ), nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the US from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The concept was announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, [1] a critic of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a ...
