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Francisco Franco - Wikipedia  Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and the Caudillo of Spain from 1939 until his death. As a conservative and a monarchist, he opposed the abolition of the ... Franco proclaimed himself Head of State and Government under the title El ...... Women could not become judges, or testify in a trial.
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Francisco Franco - New World Encyclopedia  Nov 13, 2013 ... From the July 20 onward, he was able, with a small group of 22 mainly German ... Generalsimo of the Fascist army and Jefe del Estado (Head of State). ... After the failed assault on Madrid in November 1936, Franco settled to a ..... of the newscast, "This just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"!
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Francisco Franco - Military Leader, Dictator, General - Biography.com  Jun 10, 2016 ... He then presided over a brutal military dictatorship in which tens of thousands ... Franco died on November 20, 1975, with country transitioning to a democracy. ... advancing north toward the seat of the Republican government in Madrid. ... international tourism while maintaining his position as head of state.
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J! Archive - Show #4635, aired 2004-10-29  November 20, 1975, Madrid: This head of state becomes dead; he still is ... We don't know what Noah did before the flood, but afterward he...
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Juan Carlos I of Spain - Wikipedia  Juan Carlos I reigned as King of Spain from 1975 to 2014, when he abdicated in favour of his ... Juan Carlos became King on 22 November 1975, two days after Franco's .... incapacity in 1974 and 1975, Juan Carlos was acting head of state. ... gave full control to Juan Carlos; he died three weeks later, on 20 November.
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Francisco Franco - Wikipedia  After a 36-year rule, Franco died in 1975. He restored the monarchy before his death, which made King Juan Carlos I his successor, who led the Spanish...
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A true royal revival in Europe, or just nostalgia? - CSMonitor.com  Jun 19, 2001 ... That country restored its monarchy in 1975, crowning King Juan Carlos ... led a referendum in his homeland in 1997 to restore the crown, but won only a third of the votes. ... Romania's King Michael I has fared better, after a rocky start. ... Born to his exiled parents in London, the prince has made his living as...
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Francisco Franco - Wikipedia  Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and the Caudillo of Spain from ... After a 36-year rule, Franco died in 1975. ...... Larger cities and capitals were mostly under the Policia Armada, or the grises ("greys", .... Officially, he died on November 20, 1975, at the age of 82just two weeks before his 83rd...
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The 10 Shortest-serving Heads of State - JJ McCullough  Portgual's King Carlos and his son Prince Filipe, the heir to the throne, were both shot ... The King died instantly, but the Crown Prince briefly survived only to die from ... Manuel II, who ruled for less than two years before being deposed in 1910. ... the head of the German Navy, the role of "president," a title he had previously...
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Juan Carlos | king of Spain | Britannica.com  Feb 4, 2015 ... He acceded to the Spanish throne two days after the death of Francisco Franco. ... the rest of Franco's lifetime Spain remained without a ruling monarch. On July 22 ... In 1976 Juan Carlos became the first Spanish king to visit the Americas, and two years later he made the first of his three state visits to China.
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Death of a King; Cautious King Took Risks In Straddling Two Worlds  Feb 8, 1999 ... King Hussein of Jordan, who died yesterday at 63, successfully straddled .... attempts and 7 plots to overthrow him, the King ultimately accomplished what ... ended the state of war between the neighboring countries. ..... a Cambridge-educated intellectual and an older, distant cousin, ended after 18 months.
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The Palacio Real de el Pardoaka Francisco Franco's former ...  Mar 11, 2012 ... The palace is about a 25 minute bus ride from the Moncloa bus station, ... I live very close to so it's a ridiculously easy day trip from Madrid. ... Francisco Franco, Spain's head of state from 1939-1975 ... after Franco died, King Juan Carlos refused to use El Pardo as his ... I don't think he was a very tall man.
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Spain feels Franco's legacy 40 years after his death - BBC News  Nov 20, 2015 ... Spain feels Franco's legacy 40 years after his death ... Moreover, especially in his later years, Franco did not rule by repression alone: he...
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King Manuel II of Portugal | Unofficial Royalty  May 17, 2016 ... On February 1, 1908, the royal family were attacked by assassins while riding in a ... At just 18 years old, Carlos became the last King of Portugal. His ... They continued to see each other in London after Manuel's exile, but the ... the same place his father and brother had been assassinated 24 years earlier.
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King Juan Carlos I of Spain - Wikipedia  Juan Carlos I reigned as King of Spain from 1975 to 2014, when he abdicated in favour of his .... In 1957, Juan Carlos spent a year in the naval school at Marn, Pontevedra, and another in the Air .... of Nicaragua accused Spain of intervention in his country's elections and complained about some ...... Retrieved 20 June 2014.
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Colombia Presidential Candidate Slain by Gunman Aboard Airliner ...  Apr 27, 1990 ... BOGOTA, Colombia, April 26 A former leftist guerrilla leader who joined the ... Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, died one hour after being admitted to a ... Mr. Pizarro, 38 years old, was the third presidential contender killed since ... The group became a political party, with Mr. Pizarro as its candidate for the...
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The Death of a President (1967) - Wikipedia  The Death of a President: November 20November 25, 1963 is historian William Manchester's 1967 account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The book...
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Spain begins search for remains of 'Don Quixote' author Miguel de ...  Apr 28, 2014 ... He died broke in Madrid, his body riddled with bullets. ... He lived in a neighborhood of narrow streets, small houses and ... But the most obvious marks will be the battle wounds that Cervantes sustained. ... "He will be re-buried there, but with a plaque to remember his name and who he is," said Prado.
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List of heads of state of Spain - Wikipedia  This is a list of Spanish Heads of State; that is, kings and presidents that governed the country ... Upon her death, he became sole King of Castile and Aragon, and the .... renounced his claim to the throne of France for himself and his descendants. .... of war on April 1, 1939 General Franco took control of the whole of Spain.
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The Death of Stalin (April 2003) - Library of Congress Information ...  Contemporaries Take Stock of a Dictator 50 Years Later ... discuss "The Death of Stalin (March 5, 1953): A Missed Opportunity to Overcome the Cold War? ... When Stalin died in March 1953, Eisenhower had been in office for only two months.
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Francisco Franco - Military Leader, Dictator, General - Biography.com  Jun 10, 2016 ... Franco died on November 20, 1975, with country transitioning to a ... the country's native population was staging a resistance to occupation.