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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1947, Jan. 5 | |
| Enrique Hertzog, leader of the Republican Socialist Union Party, was elected president. Several attempts by the MNR to overthrow the government were unsuccessful. | 1 |
| 1949, May 1 | |
| A strike in the tin mines in May and a rebellion by the outlawed MNR in September were put down by the army, but they left the country on the verge of bankruptcy. | 2 |
| Oct. 19 | |
| Pres. Hertzog resigned because of ill health and was succeeded by V.P. Mametro Urriolagoita. Disturbances from the Right and the Left continued. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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