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Cuban Revolution: A successful coup against Fulgencio Batista, led by Fidel Castro, established a communist-ruled Cuba. 1959 Laotian coup : Phoumi Nosavan took control of Laos in a bloodless coup. 1959 Sudanese coup attempt : was on 9 November 1959 where a group of military officers attempted a coup to overthrow Lieutenant General Ibrahim Abboud.
This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days.
Executed as Success. Success (1954) — 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala. Northwoods (1960s) — plan to incite war between the United States and Cuba. Peter Pan (1960s) — transfer of Cubans to the US; Operation Pluto (1961) — plan to invade Cuba and overthrow its government using a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles.
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
More generally, given any probability space, for any event (set of outcomes), one can define a Bernoulli trial according to whether the event occurred or not (event or complementary event). Examples of Bernoulli trials include: Flipping a coin. In this context, obverse ("heads") conventionally denotes success and reverse ("tails") denotes failure.
The definitions of bioterrorism for the purpose of this article are: The use of violence or of the threat of violence in the pursuit of political, religious, ideological or social objectives
2017–2018 Romanian protests against government policies and corruption 2018 Armenian revolution Sri Lankans protesting in front of the presidential office in Colombo. ...
Local businessmen stopped trading with him, and the local postman refused to deliver mail. The success of this led to the movement spreading throughout Ireland and gave rise to the term to Boycott, and eventually led to legal reform and increased support for Irish independence. [17] 1903–1906 United Kingdom Protest against the Education Act 1902