The 1937 Brazilian coup d'état was led by President Getúlio Vargas
with the support of the Brazilian Armed Forces on 10 November 1937.
Vargas had ruled provisionally since 1930 with military backing,
following a revolution that ended a decades-old oligarchy. In 1934, he
became constitutional president, ineligible for re-election. He and his
allies were unwilling to abandon power, and there was strong sentiment
for a dictatorship amongst the military. Senior military officers used
the Cohen Plan, fraudulently claimed to be written by communists, to
provoke the National Congress into declaring a state of war. Vargas
opponents were then undermined or forced into exile. On 10 November
1937, the police surrounded Congress, and Vargas proclaimed the Estado
Novo ('New State'). An authoritarian state was installed, based on
European fascism. Individual liberties and rights were stripped away,
and Vargas ruled for eight more years. A 1945 military coup ended the
regime and reestablished democracy.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1909:
The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White
Fleet, led by Connecticut, completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Connecticut_%28BB-18%29>
1997:
Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the
existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have
successfully been cloned from an adult cell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29>
2006:
At least six men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at
a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_depot_robbery>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vamp:
1. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
2. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together
(something) from existing material, or by adding new material to
something existing.
3. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
4. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a
repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or
while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […]
8. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vamp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of
preserving peace.
--George Washington
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington>