April 26, 1960 (, Boxer In April, the first day), South Korean President Syngman Rhee's resignation.


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1960 April 26, 2010, South Korean President Syngman Rhee to step down statement lasted 12 years, thus ending Rhee dictatorship.
Rhee (1875 - 1965), the name of the young Li Chenglong, No. yu South Hwanghae level Hermit, two classes of noble birth in 1898, due to participate in the reformed political activities and arrested study in the United States after his release in 1904, received a doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University in 1910 after returning to the YMCA as the center for the activities of the anti-Japanese arrested were released to go to the United States in 1912. 1914 Office the Korea Pacific "magazine years in Hawaii, to promote the idea of ​​anti-Japanese Korean provisional government of Shanghai in 1919, he was appointed president, a letter to U.S. President Wilson asked the DPRK to implement the" Mandate ". resigned from the presidential post in March 1925 the United States 1945 October home, South Korea's first President elected in 1948 under the support of the United States, re-elected four sessions. ruling for 12 years, repeatedly forced to change the constitution, a cruel blow to his political opponents, internal and external implementation of the pro-American anti-communist policy dictatorial rule. 1960 the outbreak of the Korean people's anti-authoritarian "4.19" revolution April 26, Syngman Rhee was forced to step down after desperate Hawaii, died from the ground in 1965. "independent spirit - Japan exposure in mind" (English version ).