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December 17, 1926

On December 17, 1926, antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful. Jean-Noël Tremblay, Jean-Noël Tremblay, Jean-Noël Tremblay would arrive in the same year.

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1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.

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On December 17, 1926

  1. 1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

    1st President of Lithuania (1919–1920, 1926–1940)

    Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist, and politician. He served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and later as the authoritarian head of state from 1926 until the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940. Referred to as the "Leader of the Nation" during his presidency, Smetona is recognised as one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II, and a prominent ideologist of Lithuanian nationalism and the movement for national revival.

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Jean-Noël Tremblay 1926– Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020)
Jean-Noël Tremblay 1926– Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020)
Jean-Noël Tremblay 1926– Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020)
Jean-Noël Tremblay 1926– Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020)

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