On This Day: Mikhail Gorbachev removed in coup
Sunday, August 19, 2018 - 02:02
in Earth & Climate
On Aug. 19, 1991, a coup orchestrated by hard-line Communists removed Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union.
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