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Selected anniversaries January

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January 1, 1912 – The Republic of China was proclaimed.
January 4, 2011 – Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests become known collectively as the Arab Spring.
January 5, 1912 – Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
January 12, 1729 – Edmund Burke was born, considered to be the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.
January 25, 2006 – Hamas wins a victory in the Palestinian legislative election, taking 76 of the 132 seats.

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Selected anniversaries February

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February 4, 2003 – Yugoslavia was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro converting the federal republic to a looser union.
February 6, 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, was born.
February 16, 2005 – In the United States, the school board in Staunton, Virginia voted to continue classes in Weekday Religious Education. This was a milestone in the issue of Separation of church and state in the United States.
February 20, 2005 – Spain approves the European Constitution in a consultative referendum, though with a low turnout of 42%.

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Selected anniversaries March

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March 11, 2006 – Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as the first female President of Chile.
March 20, 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin.

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Selected anniversaries April

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April 1, 1979 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
April 9, 1948 – the period known as La Violencia begins with the assassination of Colombian Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. For the next ten years Liberals, Communists and Conservatives would fight each other in the conflict.
April 9, 2003 – Government of Saddam Hussein overthrown by American forces in Iraq.
April 19, 2006 – Han Myung-sook becomes South Korea's first female Prime Minister.
April 24, 2005 – Presidential elections in Togo return Faure Gnassingbe to power two months after he was installed by the military following the death of his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
April 28, 1937 – Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq was born.
April 30, 1945 – Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approached the Führerbunker in Berlin. Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as President of Germany; Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.

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Selected anniversaries May

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May 5, 2005 – A General Election in the United Kingdom sees Tony Blair's Labour government returned to office with a reduced majority of 66.
May 14, 1948 – The Declaration of Independence of Israel is made.
May 18, 1948 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.

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Selected anniversaries June

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June 28, 2004 - Canadian federal elections occur; the Liberal party loses its absolute majority.

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Selected anniversaries July

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July 20, 1944 – an assassination attempt is made on Adolf Hitler with involvement by notable German conservatives.
July 23, 1952 – The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
July 27, 1830 – King Charles X of France is overthrown in the French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution.
July 31, 1912 – American conservative economist, statistician, and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman is born.

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Selected anniversaries August

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August 3, 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes office as the 6th President of Iran.
August 3, 2006 – Tuvalu holds parliamentary elections.
August 19, 1953 – Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, and retain Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne (see Operation Ajax).
August 29, 2008 – Sarah Palin becomes the first female Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States.

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Selected anniversaries September

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September 14, 2003 – Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
September 21, 1854 – the United States Republican Party is founded. The party opposed the expansion of slavery, called for free homesteads to farmers ("free soil"), and sought to modernize banking, railroads, and industry.

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Selected anniversaries October

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October 1, 1949 – The People's Republic of China is officially proclaimed.
October 1, 1982 – Helmut Kohl, described as "the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" by George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is elected Chancellor of Germany.
October 4, 1849 – Official founding of the Colombian Conservative Party.
October 7, 1949 – The Democratic Republic of Germany DDR is established officially.
October 7, 2003 – Voters recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elect actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed him.
October 10, 1911 – The Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution that leads to the founding of the Republic of China.
October 10, 1919 – The Kuomintang of China was founded.
October 27, 2005 – The political establishment in France is rocked by the spread of rioting among poor immigrant communities in suburbs of the major cities.

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Selected anniversaries November

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November 4, 1980 – Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter in the presidential election and becomes the 40th President of the United States.
November 4, 2008 – Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States, becoming the first African American elected to the office. Congressional elections for the House of Representatives and one third of the Senators (second class) were also held.
November 7, 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
November 7, 1917 – The workers of the Petrograd Soviet in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy the Kerensky Provisional Government, resulting in the first overthrow of capitalism in history.
November 11, 2004 – Former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat dies from a mysterious illness, aged 75.
November 21, 2004 – Ukrainian presidential election, 2004: Viktor Yanukovych is declared the winner in the final round. International election observers express severe criticism, and large crowds gather in a protest rally in Kiev; 12 days later, the Supreme Court annuls the result, and a new poll is scheduled.
November 22, – In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President. All television coverage for the next four days is devoted to the assassination, its aftermath, the procession of the horsedrawn casket to the Capitol Rotunda, and the funeral of President Kennedy. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute.

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Selected anniversaries December

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December 7, 2003 – the Conservative Party of Canada is formed.
December 13, 2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.
December 6, 2005 – David Cameron becomes the 26th Leader of the British Conservative Party
December 15, 2005 – Parliamentary elections are held in Iraq.
December 17, 2005 – Evo Morales wins the presidential elections in Bolivia, ousting incumbent Eduardo Rodriguez and becoming the country's first indigenous leader.
December 18, 1834 – Sir Robert Peel publishes the Tamworth Manifesto which lays the foundation for the modern British Conservative Party.
December 30, 2006 – Former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein is hanged.