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Events on Saturday 9 June 1923 1
1923Coup d'etat overthrows Bulgarian governmentMilitary and nationalist forces oust Prime Minister StamboliyskiArmy officers and the nationalist IMRO overthrew the agrarian government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski in a violent coup. Stamboliyski was captured and killed days later, and Aleksandar Tsankov formed a new right-wing government. The coup triggered a communist-led uprising that was suppressed with heavy bloodshed in September.