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Events on Monday 15 October 1979 1
1979Salvadoran coup d'étatYoung officers oust President RomeroA group of reformist military officers overthrew Salvadoran President Carlos Humberto Romero on 15 October 1979, installing a civilian-military junta. The coup failed to halt the country's polarization between left and right, and El Salvador descended into a twelve-year civil war the following year. The conflict would kill an estimated 75,000 people.