- Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide - seppuku - in Tokyo following a failed coup attempt. 1973 - Greece's far-right-wing junta, headed by George Papadopoulos , was ousted by another, slightly-less-right-wing, junta led by Dimitrios Ioannides under the figurehead President Phaidon Gizikis . 1984 - Largely at the behest of