Period Median Average Median and Average Sales Prices of New Homes Sold in United States Mar 1971 $24,300 (NA) Apr 1971 $25,800 (NA) May 1971 $25,500 (NA) Jun 1971 $26,100 (NA) Jul 1971 $25,200 (NA) Aug 1971 $25,300 (NA) Sep 1971 $25,400 (NA) Oct 1971 $25,600 (NA) Nov 1971 $25,700 (NA) Dec 1971 $25,300 (NA) Jan 1972 $24,700 (NA) Feb 1972 $26,500 (NA)
The hanging of ended the life of one of the most brutal tyrants in recent history and negated the fiction that he himself maintained even as the gallows loomed â that he remained president of Iraq despite being toppled by the United States military and that his power and his palaces would be restored to him in time.
Image caption Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship is considered one of the bloodiest in the Americas. Before his assassination on a dark highway on 30 May 1961, the Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ruled with an iron fist for almost 30 years. Tim Mansel meets one of the men who shot him. Rafael Trujillo's rule is considered one of the most brutal periods in the history of the Dominican Republic. Taking power in 1930, his hold over the country was absolute. He brooked no opposition.