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Josip Broz Tito

Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

Timeline of Events

1953

1.13.1953

Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.

1963

4.7.1963

Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.

1974

5.16.1974

Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.

1980

5.4.1980

President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia dies in Ljubljana at the age of 87.