Where Did That Coup Take Place?

Given the details, try to name where these coups took place.

Some of the answers are NOT present day countries in the JetPunk 'Countries of the World' quiz

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Year	Usurper(s)	Overthrown	Answer
2013	General Abdel Fattah El Sisi	Mohamed Morsi	Egypt
2000	George Speight	Mahendra Chaudhry	Fiji
1997	Hun Sen	Norodom Ranariddh	Cambodia
1991	Sunthorn Kongsompong	Chatichai Choonhavan	Thailand
1990	Prince Johnson	Samuel K. Doe	Liberia
1989	Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir	Ahmed al-Mirghani \| Sadiq al-Mahdi	Sudan
1987	Blaise Compaoré	Thomas Sankara	Burkina Faso
1975	Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	Bangladesh
1973	Augusto Pinochet	Salvador Allende	Chile
1971	Hugo Banzer	Juan José Torres	Bolivia
1969	Muammar al-Gaddafi	King Idris I	Libya
1968	Moussa Traoré	Modibo Keïta	Mali
1968	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr	Abdul Rahman Arif	Iraq
1965	Mobutu Sese Seko	Joseph Kasa-Vubu	D.R. Congo
1963	Dương Văn Minh	Ngo Dinh Diem	South Vietnam
1961	Park Chung Hee	Yun Bo-seon	South Korea
1955	Eduardo Lonardi	Juan Perón	Argentina
1940	Horia Sima \| Ion Antonescu	King Carol II	Romania
1930	Getúlio Dornelles Vargas	Washington Luís	Brazil
1923	Miguel Primo de Rivera \| King Alfonso XIII	Manuel García Prieto	Spain
1920	Cao Kun \| Zhang Zuolin	Duan Qirui	China
1920	Adolfo de la Huerta	Venustiano Carranza	Mexico
1919	István Friedrich	Gyula Peidl	Hungary
1889	Florvil Hyppolite	François Denys Légitime	Haiti
1808	George Johnston	William Bligh	New South Wales
1772	Juliana Maria \| Ove Høegh-Guldberg \| Prince Frederick	Caroline Matilda \| Johann Friedrich	Denmark
1688-1689	William III of Orange	King James II	England

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