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| 1952 |
| | A decision by the United Nations makes Eritrea an autonomous federal province within Ethiopia | |
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| 1952 |
| | A left-wing coup brings Paz Estenssoro to power and launches a 12-year revolution in Bolivia | |
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| 1952 |
| | Kwame Nkrumah, recently released from gaol, becomes prime minister of the British colony of the Gold Coast | |
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| 1952 |
| | A group of officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser depose Egypt's king, Farouk, and send him into exile | |
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| 1952 |
| | King Adbullah's grandson Hussein (who was with him when he was assassinated in 1951) becomes king of Jordan | |
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| 1952 |
| | Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the US presidential election with Richard Nixon as his vice-president | |
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| 1953 |
| | Joseph Stalin dies, four days after suffering a stroke | |
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| 1953 |
| | Imre Nagy becomes prime minister of Hungary, but is driven out of office two years later by hard-line Communists because of his relative liberalism | |
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| 1953 |
| | The two Rhodesias and Nyasaland are merged in the self-governing Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | |
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| 1953 |
| | The Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh is removed from office in an armed coup sponsored by the CIA and Britain's MI6 | |
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