The Depostion of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie occurred on Ethiopian New Years, 1974, September 11....
this is actually the last photograph ever taken of the Emperor.
This report on the deposal of Haile Selassie I appeared in
The Times on September 13, 1974. Haile Selassie I, who had ruled Ethiopia since 1930, was the last ever emperor of his country. There had been an earlier attempt to overthrow Selassie in 1960, but it had been quickly put down by loyalists. However, by 1974 a combination of factors including government corruption, inflation, drought, and famine led to a revolt by left-wing army officers that removed Selassie from power. He died in Addis Ababa on August 27, 1975. Between 1974 and 1987 Ethiopia was governed by the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), which mainly comprised the military and the police. It suspended the constitution, disbanded the bicameral parliament, and abolished the hereditary monarchy. By 1977, Lieutenant-General Aman Andom, mentioned in the article as the leader of the military government, had given way to Lieutenant-Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam as the country’s chief political figure after a power struggle within the leadership.