This Day in History: The most famous uprising against a military man occurs as sailors on the HMS Bounty revolt and cause a mutiny, the event portrayed almost two centuries later in a film starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard, 1789; Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is executed, later hung and dragged through the streets after the country fell to the Allies near the conclusion of World War II, 1945; President Lyndon B. Johnson sends U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic in his words to quash a Communist rebellion which was building, 1965; former war hero Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France, 1969
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:10:27 +0000
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