Chile's elected president died as his own military bombed the palace around him
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a coup against democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, backed by Chile's military and covertly supported by the US government. As fighter jets strafed the presidential palace, Allende gave a final radio address and died inside rather than surrender. Pinochet's resulting dictatorship held power for 17 years, becoming one of the Cold War's starkest examples of US intervention in Latin America.