A military officer who had studied at an army staff college in the United States, Colonel Nimeiri seized power from president Ismail Azhari in a coup in 1969, following the example of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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In 1928, Hosni Mubarak, presidentofEgypt since Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981, born.