Chilean president Salvador Allende attends a press conference in Santiago's Government House prior to the 1973 congressional elections. While Allende's government would survive the election, it was overthrown in a military coup just six months later.
Armed guards watch out for attackers as Chilean president Salvador Allende leaves the Moneda Presidential Palace during the military coup in which he was overthrown and killed. (Photo by Luis Orlando Lagos Vázquez/Keystone/Getty Images)
Chilean Army troops positioned on a rooftop fire on the La Moneda Palace 11 September 1973 in Santiago, during the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet which overthrew Chilean constitutional president Salvador Allende, who died in the attack on the palace. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
(Original Caption) Chile's Presidential Palace burns at the height of bombardment during the coup d'etat by the nation's armed forces September 11.
10th anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup in Chile on September 11, 1983 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by ILA AGENCIA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
