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1989
Eight successive presidential terms and 35 years of rule for Generalissimo Alfredo Stroessner ended suddenly today in Paraguay as a military coup toppled the old dictator. General Andres Rodrigues, Stroessner's former aide, took over the capital, after heavy fighting. He has announced that he has locked Stroessner in a military barracks. Meanwhile, Brazil is negotiating political asylum for the ousted dictator. Stroessner, the son of a German immigrant, was notorious for harbouring fugitive Nazis after World War II. Rodrigues has promised to bring democracy to Paraguay, but diplomats here do not expect the changeover to have much real effect on daily life.
Also,
New Zealand is struck by an earthquake which kills 216 people.
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German composer, 1809
Gertrude Stein, American writer and critic, 1874
Clarence Mulford, American Writer, 1883
James Michener, American Novelist, 1907
Simone Well, French Writer, 1909
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