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1966 Nigerian coup d'état
January 15, 1966 Nigerian coup d'état (Majors' Coup): Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna overthrew Balewa's First Republic; Ironsi took power, prompting the July countercoup, the Biafra war, and the 'Igbo coup' debate.
1967 Detroit riot
The 1967 Detroit riot, also called the Detroit Rebellion or 12th Street Riot, was five days of unrest beginning July 23, 1967 after a police raid on an unlicensed bar, leaving 43 dead, 342 injured, and requiring National Guard and Army troops.
1967 Newark riots
Six days of unrest in Newark, New Jersey, July 12–17, 1967, also called the Newark rebellion, sparked by the police beating of cab driver John Smith; 26 killed, National Guard deployed, followed by the Kerner Commission findings.
1967 Rangoon riots
The 1967 Rangoon riots were anti-Chinese riots in Rangoon, Burma, in June 1967, sparked by Chinese students defying a ban on Mao badges; dozens died.
1967 Togolese coup d'état
The 1967 Togolese coup d'état was the bloodless military takeover of Togo on 13 January 1967, in which Lieutenant-Colonel Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrew President Nicolas Grunitzky and suspended the Constitution.
1968 Democratic National Convention protests
1968 Democratic National Convention protests: week of anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in Chicago, August 1968, led by Yippies and MOBE, ending in the Conrad Hilton police riot, 668 arrests, and the Chicago Eight trial.
1969 Curaçao uprising
The 1969 Curaçao uprising, known in Papiamentu as Trinta di Mei, was a worker revolt in Willemstad on 30 May 1969 that forced the government to resign.
1969 Somali coup d'état
The 1969 Somali coup d'état was a bloodless military takeover on October 21, 1969, six days after President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke's assassination, that ended Somalia's multiparty democracy and began Siad Barre's military rule until 1991.
1970 Polish protests
The 1970 Polish protests (Grudzień 1970) were workers' strikes on the Baltic coast crushed by the army, killing 45 and forcing Gomułka's replacement by Gierek.
1971 Korean Air Lines Fokker F27 hijacking
1971 Korean Air Lines Fokker F27 hijacking (대한항공 F27기 납북 미수 사건): failed January 23, 1971 hijacking of a Sokcho–Gimpo domestic flight by Kim Sang-tae, killed by air marshal Choi Cheon-il; trainee pilot Jeon Myeong-se died covering a grenade; beach landing at Goseong.
1971 Pakistan Military Officers' Revolt
The 1971 Pakistan Military Officers' Revolt, or Majors and Colonels Revolt: junior officers and Brigadier F B Ali forced Yahya Khan to resign after the fall of East Pakistan, bringing Bhutto to power on December 20, 1971.
1971 Turkish military memorandum
The 1971 Turkish military memorandum (12 Mart Muhtırası), or coup by memorandum, was issued 12 March 1971 by the Chief of General Staff and force commanders, forcing Prime Minister Demirel's Justice Party government to resign and installing an interim regime.
1973 Chilean coup d'état
1973 Chilean coup d'état (golpe de Estado del 11 de septiembre de 1973): the September 11, 1973 overthrow of President Salvador Allende by a military junta led by Augusto Pinochet, ending 46 years of democracy and beginning a 17-year dictatorship.
1973 Old Bailey bombing
The 1973 Old Bailey bombing: Provisional IRA car bomb on 8 March 1973 outside London's Old Bailey court, paired with a Great Scotland Yard blast; one killed, 243 injured; Price sisters and Gerry Kelly later jailed for life.
1976 Argentine coup d'état
The 1976 Argentine coup d'état (March 24, 1976) overthrew Isabel Perón and installed the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional junta under Videla, Massera, and Agosti, whose 1976–1983 dictatorship disappeared thousands and was later prosecuted.
1976 Nigerian coup attempt
The 1976 Nigerian coup attempt, led by Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka, failed within hours despite the assassination of Nigeria's Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed, in Lagos.
1977 Angolan coup attempt
The 1977 Angolan coup attempt was a failed seizure of power in Luanda on 27 May 1977 by Nito Alves's supporters against the government of President Agostinho Neto.
1977 Guinea market women's revolt
The 1977 Guinea market women's revolt was a series of protests by women market vendors against President Sékou Touré's ban on private trade, beginning in Conakry in August 1977.
1977 Seychelles coup d'état
The 1977 Seychelles coup d'état was the June 4–5, 1977 overthrow of President James Mancham by armed supporters of France-Albert René, beginning sixteen years of one-party socialist rule.
1978 Somali coup attempt
The 1978 Somali coup attempt was a failed coup against President Mohamed Siad Barre, launched by Majeerteen army officers on 9 April 1978 after Somalia's defeat in the Ogaden War.
1978 Tunisian general strike
The 1978 Tunisian general strike, called by the UGTT labor union for 26 January 1978, became riots in Tunis known as Black Thursday, the bloodiest government-labor confrontation since independence in 1956.
1978 Ugandan invasion of Kagera
The 1978 Ugandan invasion of Kagera was Idi Amin's occupation of the Kagera Salient in northwestern Tanzania in October and November 1978, which Uganda claimed to have annexed.
1980 Bolivian coup d'état
The 1980 Bolivian coup d'état (Golpe de Estado de 1980), known as the "cocaine coup," brought General Luis García Meza to power with drug-trafficking financing on July 17, 1980.
1981 Brixton riot
The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was three days of fighting between about 1,000 mainly Black Londoners and the Metropolitan Police, 10–12 April 1981, triggered by Operation Swamp 81 stop-and-search policing and the sus law, leading to the Scarman report.
1981 Gambian coup attempt
The 1981 Gambian coup attempt was a Marxist-leaning effort led by civilian Kukoi Samba Sanyang to overthrow President Dawda Jawara, suppressed by Senegalese forces within a week.
1981 Irish hunger strike
1981 Irish hunger strike: republican prisoners in the Maze/Long Kesh, Northern Ireland, led by Bobby Sands, refused food from 1 March to 3 October 1981 for political status; ten died, Sands was elected MP, and Sinn Féin entered electoral politics.
1981 Seychelles coup attempt
The 1981 Seychelles coup attempt, code-named Operation Angela, was a failed mercenary takeover that ended with the gunmen hijacking an Air India jet to South Africa.
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands
The 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): Argentina's military junta, under Admiral Anaya's plan, seized the British territory on 2 April 1982 in Operation Rosario, prompting the Falklands War and the 14 June 1982 surrender.
1982 Kenyan coup attempt
The 1982 Kenyan coup attempt was a failed mutiny by junior Kenya Air Force personnel against President Daniel arap Moi, launched in Nairobi on 1 August 1982.
1982 Lebanon War
The 1982 Lebanon War, or Operation Peace for the Galilee, was Israel's 6 June 1982 invasion of Lebanon to expel the PLO, leading to the siege of Beirut, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, and an 18-year occupation that spawned Hezbollah.