The United States and its Caribbean allies <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Grenada" id="mwxg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Invasion of Grenada">invade Grenada</a>, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a <i id="mwxw">coup d'état</i>.