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Authorities believe that Fish killed as many as 10 children and then ate their remains. Fish went to the electric chair with great anticipation, In the wake of vicious fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in Azerbaijan, the Soviet government sends in 11, troops to quell the conflict. The fighting—and the official Soviet reaction to it—was an indication of the increasing ineffectiveness of the central Proposed by Senator John J.
Crittenden of Kentucky, the compromise was a series of constitutional amendments. The amendments would continue the old Missouri Compromise provisions The , which runs some 70 miles from Irvine to San Fernando, is known as one of the Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker, where he remains for days until he died by suicide.
Hitler retired to his bunker after deciding to remain in Berlin for the last great siege of the war. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Art, Literature, and Film History. US Government. World War I. In an assassination attempt on the Shah, attributed to the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party , resulted in the banning of that party and the expansion of the Shah's constitutional powers.
In the context of regional turmoil and the Cold War, the Shah established himself as an indispensable ally of the West. Domestically, he advocated reform policies, culminating in the program known as the White Revolution , which included land reform, the extension of voting rights to women, and the elimination of illiteracy.
In he crowned himself as King of the Kings Emperor of Iran and his wife, Farah Diba, as Shahbanoo Empress , which caused discontentment amongst diffrent levels of society. Coronation of Mohammad Reza Shah These measures and the increasing arbitrariness of the Shah's rule provoked both religious leaders who feared losing their traditional authority and students and intellectuals seeking democratic reforms.
These opponents criticized the Shah for violation of the constitution, which placed limits on royal power and provided for a representative government, and for subservience to the United States. The Shah saw himself as heir to the kings of ancient Iran, and in he held an extravagant celebration of 2, years of Persian monarchy.
In he replaced the Islamic calendar with an "imperial" calendar, which began with the foundation of the Persian empire more than 25 centuries earlier.
These actions were viewed as anti-Islamic and resulted in religious opposition. The shah's regime suppressed and marginalized its opponents with the help of Iran's security and intelligence organization, the SAVAK.
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