Venezuelan president Isaías Medina Angarita was living on borrowed time, and on this fateful day, Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, a triumvirate of Venezuelan Armed Forces leaders, decided to cash in that loan. With a swift and decisive coup d'état, they ousted Medina Angarita from power, marking a new chapter in Venezuela's turbulent history. As the dust settled, Medina Angarita's presidency was nothing more than a footnote, and the trio of generals held the reins of power.