Friday, 1 May 2015

01-MAY-1872 :- BIRTH OF Sidónio Pais ,4th President of Portugal.

Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais 
( 1 May 1872  – 14 December 1918 ) was a Portuguese military leader politician and diplomat, the fourth President in 1918. He was known as the President-King. On 5 December 1917, he led an uprising against Afonso Costa's Democratic Party government, and established an authoritarian regime and was elected President on 28 April 1918. He was murdered in central Lisbon, 11 days before Christmas 1918.

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