2010 Event Twenty-three Shia Muslim activists are charged with terrorism and attempting to overthrow the government of Bahrain 1961 Event 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro 1954 Event CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala 1952 Birthday Hun Sen, born in Peam Koh Sna, Cambodia, politician, Cambodian People's Party, Prime minister of Cambodia, governed since the 1979 overthrow of the Khmer Rouge 1941 Event English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria 1931 Event Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII 1923 Event Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees 1918 Event Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus 1911 Event Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day) 1911 Event U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras 1870 Event 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king 1588 Event Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I